Import and export

Leganote reads the title, composer, key and tempo, and turns each verse, chorus and bridge block into a section with that name. The chords come in, in order, one per beat, all in one bar for each block; lyrics and comments are left out. The band plays only the first chord of each block until you lay the chords out into bars in the editor on iPad or Mac. If a chord in the file can't be read, nothing is imported and Leganote shows Couldn't parse this ChordPro file.

For charts from Dorico, Sibelius or MuseScore. Leganote reads the chord symbols bar by bar and takes rehearsal marks as section names; the notes themselves are ignored. Export writes the chart back out the same way, compressed (.mxl) or not (.musicxml), from a song's ••• menu.

Import PDF… adds a PDF as a song of its own, for charts you didn't write. They're under PDFs in the library; see PDF charts.

Going the other way, Export as PDF… in a song's ••• menu saves the chart as a PDF to Files, to print or send to the band. On the Mac it's File ▸ Export as PDF… (⇧⌘E), and File ▸ Print… (⌘P) prints it.

Your songs themselves are .leganote files in the Leganote folder of your iCloud Drive. See iCloud and your files.