chord, converting chopro-files to ps

Since long it has been difficult to find the sources for 'chord' the original text filter program for creating typeset songs from chopro-files. But here it is, please download the sources for version 3.6.2.

To make it on a linux (or probably also on most other unix systems) with a compilator and make installed, just decompress the file and run make, thereafter, as root, run make install to install it to /usr/local/, i.e:

[morten@pyrola test]$ tar -xjf chord-3.6.2.tar.bz2
[morten@pyrola test]$ cd chord-3.6.2
[morten@pyrola chord-3.6.2]$ make

The make may give a warning

a2crd.c: In function 'main':
a2crd.c:307: warning: return type of 'main' is not 'int'

Please just ignore it. After the compilation is finished, just type

[morten@pyrola chord-3.6.2]$su -c 'make install'
Password:

Presently, you may get an error message telling that the man page can not be installed due to a missing directory. I'll look into that as soon as I have some time.

To directly make a pdf-file from chopro, use the piping:

[morten@pyrola ~]$chord MyChord.cho | ps2pdf - MyChord.pdf

If you have any questions, please contact me on cpan@sickel.net

Todos

• Clean up the above mentioned problem with make install on linux
• Clean up the above mentioned problem with make
• Make it as a package. As a start for debian

Neccesary legal notice

remember, If you are using chord for anything else than your own songs, check your local legislations to which degree you are allowed to do that at all, not at least if you want to share the results with somebody else. I can not take any responsibility for unlawful use of chord.

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