UCHORD - a chordpro program for ukuleles

UCHORD

UCHORD has been written provide ukulele players with a tool to produce good looking, self-descriptive music sheet from a text file. UCHORD is based on the CHORD program, but modified to support the Ukulele in its standard tunings.

UCHORD reads a text file (chordpro format) containing the lyrics of a song, the chords to be played, their description and some other optional data to produce a PostScript file that includes:

Centered titles
Chord names above the words
Graphical representation of the chords at the end of the songs

UCHORD also provides support for

Selection for tunings other than GCEA
Multiple columns on a page
Index of a songbook
Multiple logical pages per physical pages ( 1, 2 or 4)
Configurable fonts for the lyrics, comments and the chord names
Multiple songs inside one file
Chorus marking

It is the first version, and I would welcome all comments and bug reports sent to me at rhh@sillyyak.com.au

It is free and open source software and can be freely distributed. The program is written in JAVA, so should run on any system.

The current release is Version 0.4, download the following zip file. uchord.zip
Installation instructions are in the user guide.

A screen shot:

Sample input file: matildaSht.cho
Sample output file (PostScript): matildaSHT.ps
The user Guide (PDF): userGuide.pdf

Updated November 30th 2006

Robert Hinterding, rhh@sillyyak.com.au