Manual Meta Characters

Some chars have a special meaning.

# Comment

Comment lines start with a #.

+ Page break

A plus char at the beginnig of a line adds a page break.

- Text line

Line is interpreted as text annotation e.g. verse.

: Section Title

Text line rendered with a border. E.g. A and B sections.

= Section Title and Delimiter

Same as : and also delimiter of sections.
The previous bar gets a closing double line.
The next bar gets an opening double line.

_ Glue

Half-bar changes or split bars. If you want to have more than one chord in a single bar you have to „glue“ them together.

... Empty Bar

Can be used as placeholder if you haven't figured out some chords yet.
Or to create exercises where students add a variation or modulation themselves.

( ) Repeat a section |: :|

See examples

x3 Times

Repeat a section N times

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1. 2. Endings, volta brackets

First and second endings or first-time bars and second-time bars

1.-3.+5.+8. 4.+6.+7.

You can use + and - to describe more complex variations.

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% Simile mark - one bar

Print a simile mark

%% Simile mark - two bars

Print a simile mark

%1 %2 Repeat

%N = repeat N preceding bars.

- All Meta Characters
# A comment 
= A 
(A B C D)x2
A %1 C_D E
= B
(A B 1. C D 2. E F)
- simile mark one bar
A B C %
- simile mark two bars
A B %%
+ A second Page
(A B %2
C_D E_F %2 )x3
- 4 bars repeat
( E F G A
%4)
- empty bars
A ... ... D