Chord Pro

Summary: Display ChordPro-formatted song sheets in a wiki page

Version: 2022-01-22

Prerequisites: PmWiki version: 2.3.1 or greater; PHP 7.4 or greater

Status: Stable

Maintainer: simon

Licence: GPL3^[1]

Discussion: ChordPro-Talk

Categories: Editing, Layout, Markup, PHP55, PHP72

File: chordpro-2022-01-22.zip Δ

License: GPL3+

Description

Use ChordPro formatted lyrics and tablature in a PmWiki page to embed and display ChordPro-formatted song sheets into a wiki page.

Markup

ChordPro is an early text format which was used to quickly generate song list with the chords mixed in with the lyrics. In many ways it is very wiki-like. Its goal is to make a machine-readable songsheet syntax, suitable for pretty-printing, which is also relatively easy on human eyes.

This recipe adds custom markup - ||: text :|| - for embedding ChordPro text within a wiki page. Within the custom markup ChordPro directives consist of keywords encapsulated in braces (curly brackets), viz "{keyword}", and text representing lyrics, within which chords, signified by square brackets, viz "[C#m7]", are embedded.

See ChordPro markup for details.

Formatting

All formatting is controlled by CSS. By default the chords and lyrics text is monospaced and the same size, however this is not necessary.

The spacing between the chording and the lyrics is controlled by the line-height CSS property. The spacing between each line of the song is controlled by padding above the chords and padding below the lyrics.

Modify chordpro.css to change colours, font-size, font-family, spacing etc. It is quite easy to do so and the CSS file is commented.

Installation

Download and unzip the archive chordpro-2022-01-22.zip Δ.

move the chordpro.php file to the /cookbook/ directory
move the chordpro.css file to the /pub/css/ directory unless you have customised it previously

Add the following line to config.php

@include_once("$FarmD/cookbook/chordpro.php");

Notes

Releases

2022-01-22

namespace, strict_types=1, use type hints, requires PHP 7.4 or greater

2022-01-01

Fix Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated, use Semantic elements

2017-09-04

use Markup for PHP 7.2 compatibility

2015-07-01

use relative font sizes in CSS

2014-08-10

GPL3. Use Markup_e for PHP5 compatibility

2009-10-01

Change handling of Title, Subtitle, and Album. Better cope with two directives on one line. Add CSS for page breaks and page directives. Adjust CSS for line-height and song line spacing.

2009-08-20

A significant release providing css controlled formatting for wiki pages and printing, with correct handling of blank lines

Contributors

simon - CSS, subsequent versions and updates
Sproaticus - original version

References

Web Chord, an online program which takes ChordPro files and makes them look pretty, and Chordpro format
Chordie -- https://www.chordie.com/ Search Engine specialising in Chopro-files
Chordpro markup

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