Chord Lyrics

Obsidian Chord Lyrics

This plugin adds the ability to display chords over lyrics to Obsidian.

Features

• Highlight chords
• Basic line wrapping on smaller screens while maintaining chord / lyrics relationship
• Automatically detects most chord / lyrics lines
• Ability to display a section header (e.g. chorus or verse)
• Customizable colors

Examples

These small examples help you to quickly get going.

Chords

To add chords just write them above the lyrics in a chordlyrics block.

```chordlyrics
A     Cm      F     D7
These are your deep lyrics
```

turns into

Headers

To add a section header just add the name in between square brackets.

```chordlyrics
[My Verse]
  A     G9      F-     D A D
This line really tickles my soul
```

turns into

Mark Lines

In case automatic detection leaves you hanging, you can mark chord lines with %c and text lines with %t at the end.

```chordlyrics
Dm7 D  A  D  B  A Am   A C  Dm Dm7 Gadd9 %c
I'm a changed person after reading this %t
```

turns into

Wrapping

Chords and lyrics wrap around with less space while maintaining their relationship.

```chordlyrics
[Verse 1]
A     G7   D#   F-
Chords and lyrics wrap around
A     G7   D#   F-
Did you really expect a rhyme

[Chorus]
A D A7 D        F- D   A7      D
Thank you for checking out the plugin
```

turns into

with less available space everything wraps around