NAME¶
a2crd - attempts the conversion of lyrics file into chordii input
SYNOPSIS¶
a2crd [ options...] [ filename... ]
DESCRIPTION¶
a2crd reads the lyrics of one songs from a file, and attempts to produce
a output suitable for
chordii. Chord names can appear above or below
the lyrics.
a2crd will embed those names into the lyrics.
The FAQ list of alt.guitar documents the way a ascii file should look, but this
format is not recognized by everyone, or fully enforced. Thus, it is
impossible to modify
chordii itself to read *any* type of ascii input
and produce good result.
a2crd tries its best to to do the tedious
conversion job.
a2crd attempts to recognize mail/news headers, and comments them out. It
preserves as is any line starting with a '{', which would indicates a
chordii command. It also preserves any lines starting with a '#'.
a2crd prepends to the output the content of a file called
$HOME/.a2crdsig, if it exists.
The first line that is not a comment is assumed to be the title of the song. The
nest lines until a blank one are assumed to be sub-titles.
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 merge with the next available text line. The ratio
has a initial value of 1. It is defined as a floating precision
value.
- -D
- Prints debugging information. For programmers only.
- -o filename
- Sends output to filename
See Also¶
chordii(l)
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright 2008 The Chordii Project
Copyright 1992 by Martin Leclerc and Mario Dorion
AUTHORS¶
Martin Leclerc (martin.leclerc@canada.sun.com *** DEFUNCT ***)