![]() ![]() You know this, I know this, the tools? Not so much. Don’t put blank lines between a chord line and its lyrics (unless you want a line of only chords) Chord liness immediately precede their lyrics.If a converter is confused and mixes none-chords into your lyrics add some separation, that is, put some blank lines in. So eschew Times or Arial and use the old stand-by, fixed-width fonts (monospaced) such as Courier or Courier New. Every font, yes, even Comic Sans, has its moment, and when your aligning by columns you need every character to be exactly the same width - something our old Smith-Corona typewriters always did. To your editor they might mean “indent the equivalent of 6 single space characters” whereas on my machines it’s always 4! Since we’re relying on fixed-width columns you need to use spaces. Review! You’ll always check the results from these as they’re never going to be perfect.Now it’s ready for the song sheet editor! Tips Streets are uneven when you're downĪbove is the same song we saw earlier after running through my ChordPro formatter (colorized-emphasis added). UkeGeeks ChordPro Formater Tool (beta) (see note about why it’s beta)įaces look ugly when you're alone.Once the song is set, well, how to prettify it with chord fingering diagrams, etc?įortunately, there are several online ChordPro “formaters” (or importers): ![]() Next, some cold readings - playing through slowing - and if that sounds bad, well, I just add/remove spaces between the chords until it’s close (and if you’re going to use this with your uke group it needs to be fairly close or it’ll fall disastrously apart). Instead, I start with what you see above, either by typing or finding it online or opening a PDF, selecting all the text, and then copy-pasting it into a text document. People are strange when you're a stranger So, I dont’ begin with “nicely formatted” text (ChordPro format). The very obvious problem is that setting exactly when (where) to change chords requires playing through the song a few times, and moving that one word or syllable to the right, well, it’s a pain. (Depending on the OS and distribution: If the Key and Capo lists are difficult to read because of a too large font you can zoom in/out with the little +/- buttons.Confession time: I don’t actually edit my songs by typing chords into the lyrics. The Button "cleanlyrics (selection)" will delete all from a selection.įor transposing to the key signature F# first transpose to Gb, then press the "enharmonic switch". Title, subtitle, artist, composer, lyricist, copyright, album, year, key, time, tempo, duration, capo. The Button "format (all)" works on the whole document and will convert all line breaks into true paragraph breaks and create paragraph styles for each found directive: These buttons help you to format original ChordPro files with directives like etc. (Transposing of chords in ChordPro format is not supported)īutton insertF: Add a ChordFrame at textcursor that is filled with the clipboard content and is ready to be filled in by typing over.Įdit the paragraph styles "chords", "lyrics", "chords(inChordFrames)", "lyrics(withChordFrames) as you like. Empty lines will be skipped.īutton C&L->F: Convert the format of a selection from lyrics&chords to a format having chords in Textframes that are anchored to characters of the lyrics with paragraph style "lyrics(withChordFrames)."īutton F->C&L: Convert the format from "lyrics(withChordFrames)." to "lyrics&chords"īutton CPro>F: Convert the format from ChordPro to "lyrics(withChordFrames)."īutton F->CPro: Convert the format from "lyrics(withChordFrames)." to ChordPro format. Starting with the first selected paragraph every odd paragraph will get the "chords" Style, every even paragraph will get the "lyrics" Style. Just select the whole passage with the mouse and click the button. The Button "format as "C&L" " can be used to format such kind of text with one click. It is a good idea to use a "chords" and a "lyrics" Paragraph Style. Per Default only chords and notes with the Paragraph Style called "chords" will be processed. If you want to use the music symbols ♯ and ♭ instead of # and b you can tick the checkbox "♯,♭". Notes and chords must start with a capital letter! You can use and translate between the following languages:Ĭhords can be of any kind: Am7b5/C (G7/B) Dsus4 /D /C (/B) A#knife ![]() Transpose Chords and notes of a selected text passage to different key signatures and Capo places. (The default ChordDiagram types beside major are: 5,7,m,m7,m7b5,maj7,sus4,7sus4,dim7) New: Version 1.0.4 can also transpose the standard Chord Diagrams that were created with the extension ChordDiagrams
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