Getting started with ChordPro

For a good understanding it is important to know that ChordPro is basically a file transformation program. It reads a file containing lyrics and chords according to the ChordPro File Standard, and produces a neatly formatted PDF document that you can view and print.

When you start the wxchordpro program it will therefore show a File Open dialog where you can designate an existing ChordPro file.

If you have one, select it and its contents will be shown in a new window.
If you don't have one, press Cancel and an empty window will be shown. From the menu bar, choose Help > Insert song example. A small song will appear in the editor window.

From the menu bar, choose File > Preview. If all goes well, a preview window will open showing the formatted PDF document. From the preview window you can print and save the PDF document.

Note that you need to have a PDF file viewer application installed, and the system must be configured to use this viewer to open files with .pdf extension.

If you are familiar with working on the command line, the basic command to use is:

chordpro mysong.cho

This will process mysong.cho and produce the PDF document mysong.pdf.

chordpro --help will give you a list of options that you can pass to the chordpro command.

More information can be found in the User Guide.