a2crd(1)						      General Commands Manual							  a2crd(1)

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  indi-
       cates 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_charac-
	       ters) 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 ***)

Utilities							     July 2009								  a2crd(1)