1a2crd(1)                    General Commands Manual                   a2crd(1)
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NAME

6       a2crd - attempts the conversion of lyrics file into chordii input
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SYNOPSIS

9       a2crd [ options...] [ filename... ]
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DESCRIPTION

12       a2crd  reads  the lyrics of one songs from a file, and attempts to pro‐
13       duce a output suitable for chordii.  Chord names can  appear  above  or
14       below the lyrics.  a2crd will embed those names into the lyrics.
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16       The  FAQ list of alt.guitar documents the way a ascii file should look,
17       but this format is not recognized by everyone, or fully enforced. Thus,
18       it  is  impossible to modify chordii itself to read *any* type of ascii
19       input and produce good result.  a2crd tries  its  best  to  to  do  the
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22       a2crd  attempts  to recognize mail/news headers, and comments them out.
23       It preserves as is any line starting with a '{', which would  indicates
24       a chordii command. It also preserves any lines starting with a '#'.
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26       a2crd prepends to the output the content of a file called $HOME/.a2crd‐
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29       The first line that is not a comment is assumed to be the title of  the
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OPTIONS

34       -r ratio
35               Sets the threshold for chordii line recognition. a2crd looks at
36               every line. If the ratio ( space_characters /  (non-space_char‐
37               acters) is greater than ratio, the line will be recognized as a
38               chordii line, and its content  will  be  merge  with  the  next
39               available  text line. The ratio has a initial value of 1. It is
40               defined as a floating precision value.
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42       -D      Prints debugging information. For programmers only.
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44       -o filename
45               Sends output to filename
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48       See Also
49              chordii(l)
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52       Copyright 2008 The Chordii Project
53       Copyright 1992 by Martin Leclerc and Mario Dorion
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AUTHORS

56       Martin Leclerc (martin.leclerc@canada.sun.com *** DEFUNCT ***)
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