[sciurius]

This is the biggest release in the history of this program...

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.
  

See https://www.chordpro.org/chordpro/chordpro-relnotes/ for more details.

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.
  

ChordPro (the program) configuration changes

• 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.
  

Bugfixes

• 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).
  

Miscellaneous

• New install kits for Windows and Linux based on ppl by Oliver Betz. You can find them on the GitHub release page.
  

[Zubersoft]

Excellent work! I look forward to adding support for the pango markup language. 

Side note: The link to the pango markup language doesn't appear to work: https://www.chordpro.org/chordpro/chordp...arkup.html

Mike