Frequently Asked Questions

Currently mostly a placeholder page, but we hope to publish more questions and answers here sometime soon.

The ChordPro standard

The ChordPro program

Installation

Using ChordPro

• How to get my fonts right?

• How to get multiline titles / subtitles in my page headers?

• ChordPro supports UNICODE. Then why can’t I see my russian (vietnamese, greek, …) characters?

• D♯ transposes to D♭ but I want C♯

• “Unknown chord” for valid chords

• I’ve added a Copyright (Artist, …) directive but I do not see it in the output

Using the ChordPro editor

• Why do I see PU2 in my source?.

• Preview does not show, and I get “Failed to get GBM device”.