requirements on rendering the pdf output

tempo

the tempo will be shown, in BPM. There is one tempo for the whole song, if the real song has different tempos, this will not be rendered

sections

what we call a section is what you naturally see in a song : verse, chorus, pre-chorus, bridge, intro, ...

1. it will be possible to define new sections
2. sections will be associated with colors
3. each section has associated lyrics

time signature

time signature will be shown in the output. There will be one time signature for the whole song, except if a bar is marked with another time signature

music sheet snippet

it will be possible to have music sheet snippets in the rendered output pdf file. This way we can show the solos, riffs, gimmicks....

coherence

the sections in the grid rendering will be in coherence with the sections in the lyrics. This mean that if we have, for instance, a song with verse-1, verse-2, pre-chorus-1, chorus-1, we will find these sections in both rendering

grid

the chords will be shown as a grid, with 4 columns, one grid per section

chords symbol

the chords will be shown with the A...G symbols ( not Do Ré Mi...).

• the minus symbol will show the minor
• 7 for 7 chords
• flat and sharp
• m7
• sus chords
• 5 chords
• 7M will be show as a triangle
• diminished chords as small circle

the size of a cell for a chord will not change, this means that a C chord rendering will take as much width as a C#m7, so all cells have same size

chords per bar

there will be one or two chords per bar, for visibility reason. if a bar has more than 2 chords, this will be in annotation

line repeat

it will be possible to specify a line repeat. In this case, we will have a symbol that shows the line has to be played this number of repeats.

the line repeat value will be either 2, 3 or 4.

the bar count numbering and time will have to be coherent with the time repeat

text rendering

text rendering will have these features :

1. foreground color
2. background color
3. internal and external links
4. italic, bold, and other fonts
5. foot notes