[sciurius]

As maintainer of the original Chord program (now called Chordii) and keeper of the ChordPro standard, I've been thinking about this for a long while now. And the answer is "Yes, it is highly desired" and "No, there's no end to what would be needed."
So I am considering a different approach.
We have a mechanism that allows flexible formatting of text and other things: HTML. With CSS, you can control everything to the level of precision you need. The only thing required is a ChordPro processing tool that produces HTML. This is actually quite simple and I have an experimental version that produces the following HTML:

Code:

<div class="title">Everybody Hurts</div>
<div class="subtitle">REM</div>
<div class="tab">...</div>
<div class="verse">
<table class="songline">
 <tr class="chords">
   <td>D </td><td>G </td><td>D </td><td>G </td><td>D </td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="lyrics">
   <td>When your day is </td><td>long and the </td><td>night, the night is </td><td>yours a</td><td>lone</td>
 </tr>
</table>
<table class="songline">
 <tr class="chords">
   <td>D </td><td>G </td><td>D </td><td>G </td>
 </tr>
 <tr class="lyrics">
   <td>When you’re sure you’ve had e</td><td>nough of this </td><td>life, well </td><td>hang on</td>
 </tr>
</table>
<div>

There are additional <div> classes for chorus, comments, and so on. You can view the resultant HTML in a browser, and tools like weasyprint can be used to generate good looking PDF pages. The CSS provides styles for screen and print media.

I think this approach has a much greater future than trying to crap in all kinds of {commentfont} {commentsize} {tabfont} and so on.

What do you think?