CHORDPRO(1)

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👑 CHORDPRO(1) — the girlies' guide to chordpro 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to CHORDPRO(1), straight out of the User Contributed Perl Documentation section. sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about the most ✨iconic✨ little program that turns your messy lyric notes into actual sheet music. no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

chordpro — a lyrics and chords formatting program. that's it, that's the whole vibe. she formats. she's the main character. periodt. 💅

🎀 SYNOPSYS 🎀

yes we're spelling it like that, don't come for me. here's how you call her:

chordpro [ options ] file [ file ... ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea, bestie. chordpro will read one or more text files containing the lyrics of one or many songs plus chord information. one file, ten files, a whole chaotic folder of files — she's not scared, she's built different. 🫶

and then? then she generates a photo-ready, professional looking, impress-your-friends sheet-music suitable for printing on your nearest printer. literally photo-ready. you could frame it. you could hand it out at your gig. your friends will be like "who made this??" and you'll be like "me. well. me and chordpro." iconic behavior honestly. 😭✨

okay but here's a fun little plot twist 👀 — when you invoke her as a2crd, or when the first argument is --a2crd, the input will be interpreted as a 'chords over lyrics' file, converted to ChordPro, and written to standard output. she switches personalities. she contains multitudes. it's giving versatility. 💜

and if you just want the command line usage summary (like, the quick lil cheat sheet), hit her with:

chordpro --manual

also, for the complete documentation — the full lore, the deep cuts, the extended universe — visit the web site <https://chordpro.org>. go. read. slay. 🌈

ngl, that's the whole page. short and sweet. she does one thing and she does it gorgeously. 💖

⭐ a lil sign-off ⭐

this lil beauty is running on perl v5.42.2 and this page was last touched on 2026-04-30. so it's fresh, it's current, it's serving. now go make some sheet music bestie, you've got this 🎀🦋💅🔥👑

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