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.

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 an 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. OMNL is optimized for the internet, send your PaperChord documents by email or publish them on a Web Site or FTP Server.