a2crd(1)

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💖 a2crd(1) 💖

okay so bestie, this is the a2crd(1) page from the General Commands Manual, and we're about to make lyrics-file-to-chordii conversion make sense. no cap. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

a2crd — attempts the conversion of lyrics file into chordii input 🎸

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

a2crd [OPTIONS] [FILE...]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So a2crd reads the lyrics of one song (the page literally says “one songs” and we love that for us 😭) from a file, and attempts to produce an output suitable for chordii. Chord names can appear above or below the lyrics, and a2crd will embed those names into the lyrics. iconic.

The FAQ list of alt.guitar documents the way an ascii file should look, but this format is not recognized by everyone, or fully enforced. So it's impossible to modify chordii itself to read any type of ascii input and produce good result. a2crd tries its best to do the tedious conversion job. it's giving helpful bestie energy 🫶.

a2crd attempts to recognize mail/news headers, and comments them out. It preserves as is any line starting with a '{', which would indicate a chordii command. It also preserves any lines starting with a '#'. periodt.

a2crd prepends to the output the content of a file called $HOME/.a2crdsig, if it exists. cute.

The first line that is not a comment is assumed to be the title of the song. The next lines until a blank one are assumed to be subtitles. 🎶

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -r RATIO — sets the threshold for chordii line recognition. a2crd looks at every line. If the ratio (space_characters / non-space_characters) is greater than RATIO, the line will be recognized as a chordii line, and its content will be merged with the next available text line. RATIO has an initial value of 1. It is defined as a floating precision value. math girlie moment 💅.
  • -D — prints debugging information. For programmers only. 🔍
  • -o FILE — sends output to FILE. 📝

🦋 See Also 🦋

Copyright (C)2008 The Chordii Project Copyright (C)1992 by Martin Leclerc and Mario Dorion

🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

Martin Leclerc * DEFUNCT *

okay that's the page, bestie! with love from the Utilities corner, August 2010 edition, for a2crd(1) 💖✨

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