What is PaperChord?

PaperChord is a program for guitar players who wants to notate chords and chord-progressions.

Is PaperChord a program for me?

Perhaps you are a jazz guitar player who wants to write out the progression of a Real Book song.

Maybe you are a teacher who needs to get a lesson down to paper and send it through email or you are composer who wants to make handouts of your new song for your band.

What can PaperChord do?

PaperChord is a desktop publishing tool for guitar players. You can create chord-progression documents in standard notation on a staff:

and you can create easy readable chord diagrams in grid form:

Note, that this is a screen shot, the printed document is a high quality print that is only limited by the resolution of your printer.

PaperChord provides an easy readable open file format named OMNL. The Open Music Notation Language OMNL is a tag oriented paper description language similiar to HTML. It is a ascii text file that can be read on almost any computer. You can manipulate your documents with an text editor or even extend this language with your own tags and use it for own applications.

Purchase PaperChord and get the manual

When you decide to purchase PaperChord 1.1 you will receive a 40 page manual that is easy to read for the beginner and covers the full program for the expert. Have a short overview by reading the contents:

 

Contents

 

 

1 Introduction

 

1.1 Is PaperChord a program for me?

1.2 What can PaperChord do?

1.3 How do I purchase PaperChord?

1.4 About the Author

 

 

2 First steps

 

2.1 What do I need to run PaperChord (System Requirements)?

2.2 How do I Install PaperChord?

 

 

3 A guided tour through PaperChord

 

3.1 What is the goal of this chapter?

3.2 Create a chart document

3.3 Modify the title

3.4 Add bars

3.5 Add the chords

3.6 Add beat symbols

3.7 Add signs

3.8 Add a box text

3.9 Correct a mistake

3.10 Save your work

3.11 Create a grid document out of the chart on a click

3.12 Add dots

3.13 name the fret

3.14 Add free text

3.15 if you like to add more chords

3.16 Print the documents

 

 

4 Functional overview

 

4.1 File Menu

4.2 Edit Menu

4.3 Format Menu

4.4 Options Menu

4.5 Chart toolbox

4.6 Grid toolbox

 

 

5 OMNL Open Music Notation Language Reference

 

5.1 What is OMNL?

5.2 How does OMNL work?

5.3 OMNL Reference

5.4 Can I use OMNL?

 

 

6 New in PaperChord 1.1

 

6.1 Bug Corrections

6.2 Enhancements

6.3 New Features

 

 

7 Future of PaperChord

 

7.1 You are the future of PaperChord

7.2 Improve the quality through bug reports

7.3 Let me know your wishes

7.4 Future plans