Chordii Files

6.079.0

This is a beta release for the upcoming 6.080.

Released: 2025-08-06

Highlights

• Support for strum patterns in grids.
• Bookmarks.
• Break items in Table of Content lines.
• Improved control over page order and alignment.

GUI improvements

• You can now set the preferred filename extension for ChordPro song file names.
• When saving a preview PDF, the default output filename is derived from the current song or folder.
• ChordPro will no longer offer saving the preview on exit. It can easily be regenerated and exported if needed.
• The save and clean operations for the messages are now provided by buttons on the messages pane itself.
• Simplified the editor Insert menu. Add inserting special symbols.
• Typing a {start_of_section} will automatically provide the corresponding {end_of_section}.

Other improvements

• New metadata directives: sortartist and tag.
• New font: MuseJazzText.
• Chord diagrams can now have nice, curly barres. Thanks to Michail Vourlakos for contributing.
• (Experimental) allpages anchor for images. Similar to the page anchor, but the image is repeated on every page of the song.
• Lilypond delegate supports a property "program" to explicitly designate the Lilypond program.
• Filenames in filelists may be quoted, even if no options are involved.
• Filenames in filelists are considered relative to the filelist.
• Are you using the preprocessor in your abc and ly environments? Please use the more general parser.preprocess.env-... instead.
• Config settings.maj7delta to obtain a delta symbol instead of 'maj7' in chord names.
• You can now use special ChordPro Symbols from markup.
• Songbooks now can have both a cover and front matter.
• To avoid confusion, command line option --print-default-config will now print the template config instead of the full config. To print the full config, repeat the option.
• In case of emergency it is now possible to obtain chord brackets in lyrics and annotations.
• Allow name based array access in config augment.
• Font specifications in the config may now carry (some) properties. E.g. pdf.fonts.comment_box : "sans 12; color=blue; frame=1".
• Command line options --even-pages-number-left (-L) and --odd-pages-numbers-left are no longer functional. They did the wrong thing anyway. Use pdf.songbook in the config file instead.

Bug Fixes

• Prevent "settings migrated" dialog if not applicable.
• Some issues with Unicode filenames on Windows.
• Some issues with line endings on Windows.
• Fix image alignment with indent.
• Fix title swap even when using title-even format.
• Fix problems with save/restore settings on Windows.
• Fix reading from "-" (standard input).
• Fix problem with a2crd from wx on Windows.
• Fix issues [#459], [#512], [#528], [#534], [#537].
• Fix issue [#544] Issue with special character in metadata during export when used in filename.
• (PDF) Fix progress count if multi-pass.
• Fix diagnostic in file load.
• Fix size reset after font reset.
• Fix/Doc song and page metadata substitutions.
• Suppress labels for grids when lyrics-only.
• Suppress empty lines after grids when lyrics-only.
• Fix crash with chords in grid margins.
• Fix topic localization in fix_musicsyms.
• TextBlock: Default colour to style colour.
• (Wx) Prevent recursion in saved preferences.
• Fix [#555], [#550], [#542], [#315], [#569].
• Fix crash with {comment: [chord]} in 2-pass mode.
• Fix problems with images in 2-pass mode.

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