NEW IN VERSION 4.3 * Rebased on Chord 3.6.4. Since this release of Chord is licensed under GPL, Chordii is now legally GPL as well. NEW IN VERSION 4.2 * Port to Microsoft Windows. NEW IN VERSION 4.1 * Renamed to Chordii on request of chordie.com. NEW IN VERSION 4.0 **** Development and support taken over by Johan Vromans **** and Adam Monsen (November 2007) * Project web page: http://chordie.sourceforge.net. * Modify to use the GNU Build System. * Song titles can be flushed left. * Correct some PostScript errors. * Fix some crashes. NEW IN VERSION 3.6.2 **** Last known version by Martin Leclerc and **** Mario Dorion (July 1995) * The CHORDRC variable points to the ".chordrc" file, which can be called anything * -P option selects the paper size * better handling of -2 and -4 options * better handling of paper formats NEW IN VERSION 3.6 * Song index is sorted * .chordrc is read only once per execution * Speed improvement by a factor of ~5 * support of multiple columns * better (I hope...) support of A4 format * inclusion of a2crd to convert ASCII files to chord format * Chords defined multiples times ALL stay in the known chord structure, so that 'chord -D' shows them all, even if the names are duplicates. * bug fixes NEW IN VERSION 3.5 * Generation of PostScript indexes. * Generation of PostScript chord-charts. * Additional 'comments' style (box and italic). * Directive to set a monospace font (ie: not-proportional) suitable for tabs. * Support for A4 paper format. * Page numbers are now "physical page numbers". * Chord-charts (-dump option) now include chords from .chordrc file. * Option to print/not-print page numbers. * Option to print/not-print chord grids. * Option to print grids only for "difficult" chords. * Directive to force a physical page break. * Directive to force a virtual page break. * Chords are printed in a logical order. * Special chord [N.C.] (no-chord) without a chord grid. * New (and improved!) {define} syntax. * Chord names and directives are case-insensitive. * Public domain getopt() routine (for portability). * (almost) lint free (better portability) * Ansi-C compliant * ... and bug fixes NEW IN VERSION 1.2 * More flexible Page Numbering - Left/right - always-present - an option for simgle spacing on lines with no chords * Distinction between an unplayed string and a buffed one * TOC generation * Some bug fixes NEW IN VERSION 1.1 * CHORD supports transposition. See the man page. * miscellanious bug fixes, including dubious coding that kept IBM and SGI from executing CHORD properly * the grids now indicate string played open * Error messages noe correctly report the name of the file and the line number where the error was found