This is a description of a utility called 'chord'.

It's purpose is to provide guitar players with a tool to produce good looking,
self-descriptive music sheet from a text file.

'chord' read a text file containing the lyrics of a song, the chords to be played,
their description and some other optional data to produce a PostScript document
that includes:
	
	Centered titles
	Chord names above the words
	Graphical representation of the chords at the end of the songs

'chord' also provides support for 

	Multiple logical pages per physical pages ( 1, 2 or 4)
	Configurable fonts for the lyrics and the chord names
	Multiple songs inside one file
	The complete ISO 8859-1 character set
and
	Chorus marking

'chord' has been developped on SPARCStation running SunOS 4.1.2 and
OpenWindows 3. The PostScript previewer (PageView), SparcPrinters and
LaserWriter II have had no problem with the output. Please report any
changes your system requires.

===== COMPILING UNDER UNIX =====

chord is written in fairly portable C and should work on most UNIX
systems with little or no change. Let us know of your problems.

Simply edit the Makefile to meet your environment and 'make'


===== COMPILING UNDER VMS =====

VMS port was done by  Jim Gerland (GERL...@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu)

	Files for VMS are:

	chord.rnh
	makefile.vms
	argproc.c

===== ARCHIVES =====

James B. from the University of Nevada (nevada.edu) has
graciously open the doors of their ftp site for archiving
songs in chord format. Look under /pub/guitar/CHORD, and be polite.

If you have songs you would like to put in the archive, mail them to
jam...@nevada.edu.


===== AUTHORS =====

Martin Leclerc (Martin.Lecl...@canada.sun.com)
Mario Dorion   (Mario.Dor...@canada.sun.com)	

===== PATCHES ======

patch level 1

	- Redefinition of existing chords now works
	- Adds the '-V' flag for version information
	- Man page incorrectly described the syntax
	  for the 'define' directive. fixed.
