Cheetsheet is a method of taking text files in the Cheetsheet notation and outputting PDF files for use by musicians.

A Cheatsheet usually has only the information needed for the appropriate musician. For example, a rhythm guitarist may only need the "chord sheet" (the chord names listed above the lyrics), while a drummer may need only information about the structure of the song, with cues for sections, notes about the feel of a section, drum tab for interesting fills leading to the next section, etc.

Cheetsheet is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Cheetsheet is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Cheetsheet. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Cheetsheet requires Python 2.7+ and the following python modules:

• ReportLab: module for PDF generation.
• Markdown: for formatting text to HTML or other markup

Copy the template file (songs/.template.json) to a new file in the ''songs'' directory, and edit it. Once you have modified the file to have the correct sections, lyrics, etc then run the following command:

bin/cheetsheet songs/songname.json

This will create a new file named ''songs/songname.pdf''.