CHORDPRO(1p)

🌸 CHORDPRO(1p) 🌸

okay bestie so like, this is CHORDPRO, in the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection, and it's genuinely one of those little tools that eats. 💅 Let me put you on.

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✨ NAME ✨

chordpro — a lyrics and chords formatting program 🎸🎀

(that's it, that's the whole name section, she's lowkey mysterious and I respect it)

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🦋 SYNOPSYS 🦋

(yeah they spelled it like that in the original, we don't fix, we don't touch, we simply observe 👑)

chordpro [ options ] file [ file ... ]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea: chordpro reads one or more text files — and those files have the lyrics of one or many songs in them, plus chord information, the whole package deal 🫶 — and then it turns all of that into sheet-music that is photo-ready, professional looking, and straight up impress-your-friends level. Like, you hand someone the printout and they're like "wait YOU did this??" 😭 💀

And it's suitable for printing on your nearest printer. Your nearest one. Go find a printer, any printer, she trusts you. 🖨️ ✨

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🎀 invoked as a2crd / --a2crd 🎀

Not me loving that she has a little alter ego 😌

When you invoke her as a2crd, or you pass --a2crd as the first argument, the input gets interpreted as a 'chords over lyrics'</sry> — sorry — a 'chords over lyrics' file 🧚 It gets converted to ChordPro, and then written to standard output. Periodt.

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🍓 command line usage summary 🍓

Wanna know what you can actually type? Bestie, just ask her directly:

chordpro --manual

she'll spill everything, no gatekeeping 💜

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🌈 more docs 🌈

For complete documentation, go visit the web site:

<https://chordpro.org>

fr fr, that's where the full lore lives 📖⭐

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💀 heads up: this page is the short version. It hands you the vibe check and points you at the website for the rest. Don't come for me, come for the docs.

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and that's the whole page bestie, we ate and left no crumbs 🎀🌸🦋💖

this was lifted from the CHORDPRO(1p) page as shipped with perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-05-03 — mwah, iconic, no notes 💅✨