08-13-2020, 10:45 PM
This is the biggest release in the history of this program...
This release adds support for ChordPro version 6 standard, including:
ChordPro (the program) functionality changes
This release adds support for ChordPro version 6 standard, including:
- Support for Pango Markup language in texts.
- Basic support for annotations.
- Directives start/end_of_verse/bridge and short forms.
ChordPro (the program) functionality changes
- Add PDF outlines (bookmarks).
- Revamp table of contens (finally).
- Remove section handling (we now have labels).
- Allow ~ expansion in file names.
- Allow relaxed parsing of chords (root name + arbitrary).
- Allow parsing of notes (chords with only a lc root name).
- (GUI) Show filename in window title.
- (GUI) Show asterisk if file is modified.
- Add split marker to be inserted between text phrases when the chord is wider than the phrase.
- Add settings.suppress-empty-lyrics to suppress blank lyrics lines.
- Add display property to chords to control the way they are displayed.
- Add guitar-br.json with Brandt-Roemer compliant chord symbols.
- Add meta variable songindex.
- Add metadata sorttitle.
- Add config settings for HTML backend.
- Add font properties in fontconfig settings.
- Add settings for chordnames and notenames.
- Fix interpretation of directives and markup in tab sections.
- Fix bug where some command line arguments did not properly support utf8.
- Fix handling of {chorus: label}.
- Fix problem where using a {chord} directive before any song lines would crash.
- Fix problem where the tag of a grid was ignored.
- Do not indent chorus labels when chorus indenting (issue #81).
- New install kits for Windows and Linux based on ppl by Oliver Betz. You can find them on the GitHub release page.