[cybmole]

PS the guitarappp approach uses a song format called chordpro,

https://linkesoft.com/songbook/chordproformat.html.

the coding challenge is to lift out what is in square brackets and position it on a preceding line ( not a trivial exercise even if justification is turned off .

you will see that in the example copy / pasted below , MR renders the example wrongly - chord names are not aligned correctly, but on the linkesoft URL given, the same example works . maybe their source code is worth examining also ?

In the chordpro format chords are denoted in square brackets [] in the text, e.g.

[Em]Alas, my [G]love, you [D]do me [Bm]wrong,

SongBook will render this as

Em G D Bm
Alas, my love, you do me wrong,

i checked their code for the above & on this example it is simple padding used to space out the chord names
<tt>Em&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;G& nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;D &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bm<br> Alas, my love, you do me wrong,</tt><p>

so it is still possible that converting a word doc, but using only spaces when writing that, no tabs, and using monospace font, you may get a good conversion