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This is Songbook's bug list. You are welcome to submit any bugs report or feature request you want. Song requests are also welcome. |
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Resolved bugs are marked as [[bugs/done]]. |
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[[!inline pages="./bugs/* and !./bugs/done and !./bugs/song_request and !link(done) and !*/Discussion" actions=yes postform=yes show=0]] |
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Recently fixed [[bugs]] |
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[[!inline pages="./* and link(./done) and !*/Discussion" sort=mtime show=10]] |
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Songbook does not have enough bugs, is it a perfect project? We doubt so. Please help create more bugs by adding code to Songbook! |
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Songs requested in [[bugs]] |
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[[!inline pages="./* and link(./song_request) and !link(./done) and !*/Discussion"]] |
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A discussion board is available on <patacrep.com>. You can also contact the authors directly by mail: |
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+ Alexandre "Lohrun" Dupas <alexandre.dupas@gmail.com>; |
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+ Romain "Crep" Goffe <crep@team-on-fire.com>. |
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Documentation for Songbook. |
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+ How to [[install]] this software; |
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+ How to [[write]] a new song into the books; |
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+ There's also a [[FAQ]]. |
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Songbook frequently asked questions. |
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[[!toc ]] |
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## Can I propose my own song? |
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Yes please do. |
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## Can I suggest a song? |
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Yes the bug tracker is the right place to do so. |
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## Where did you find the latex style used to produce the books? |
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We use a slighlty modified version of the [Songs](http://songs.sourceforge.net/) project. |
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## What is the licence of this software? |
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All pieces of software including Makefile, index scripts and latex style are distribued under the GPL2 licence. |
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## What is the licence of the songs files? |
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Song files transcribe copyrighted material. The transcription is the result of our own work. We believe that the non-commercial use of this work is fair. Copyright holders wanting us to remove songs from beeing distributed have simply to formulate their demand by email at <alexandre.dupas@gmail.com> of <crep@team-on-fire.com>. |
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Songbook is a set of tool used to create lyrics and chords books. It is composed of a latex style and a set of script and makefile to help users to produce great quality songbook. |
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Installing and running Songbook is pretty straightforward: |
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tar xzvf songbook.tar.gz |
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cd songbook |
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make |
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Note that you'll need make, perl, and a latex distribution that provides pdflatex to compile your first books. If you want to know more about adding songs to the songbooks, you have to learn how to [[write]] some. |
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At one point you may want to write and add your own songs to the chordbook. Let us explain how to do this in an easy way. |
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The first thing to know is that we use latex, a powerfull text processing software that produce nice looking output allowing the writter to focus on the content rather than the format. This is a programming language based on command that act as a markup. |
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Command start with a backslash '\' followed by the command name. Then comes arguments of the command, if any, either between braces or square brackets. Enough for the theory, let us present the mostly common used command to produce well formated songs. |
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## Main elements |
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Every songs start with the following declaration where you have to replace the title and the author according to the song you are writting. |
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\beginsong{Title}[by=Author] |
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Then the song is composed of a succession of verses and chorus. A verse start with *\beginverse* and finish with *\endverse*. In a same way, a chorus start with *\beginchorus* and finish with *\endchorus*. |
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The lyrics are typed normally between *\begin* and *\end*, but to add some chords information, you have to use a special command: for instance \[Mi] produce a **Mi** chord above the lyrics where the command is inserted. You can use whatever text as chord definition (see examples for flat, sharp or other classical notations). The following verse obtained from the song *Where is my mind* by the Pixies shows the use of these commands. |
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\beginverse |
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With your \[Mi]feet in the air and your \[Do#m]head on the ground \[La&m] \[La] |
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\[Mi] Try this trick\[Do#m] and s\[La&m]pin it Ye\[La]ah, |
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\[Mi] Your head will coll\[Do#m]apse but there's \[La&m]nothing in it And you'll \[La]ask yourself |
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\endverse |
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Some character have to be typed differently using latex command to produce a perfect results. The two main examples used in the current songbook are the three dots (...) and the oe character. To represent such character you have to respectively used the *{\dots}* command and the *{\oe}* command. We use braces arround the command so the command can be inserted wherever you want. Some songs use other notation for the same characters, please report any problem you may find in the current source files. |
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Every songs end with the following declaration so you sould add it at the end of your file. |
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\endsong |
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## Chord notation |
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Flat is represented using the *'&'* character: this produce a *'b'* shaped character which is the classical notation for the flat. Sharp is coded using *'#'*. Other notations are simply added as character to the main chord. For instance a *La flat minor* is noted *La&m*. |
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## Optionnal elements |
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Before the *\beginsong* command, you could specify the number of column you want your song to be divided into. You might have between one and three column by using the following command with the appropriate number of column. |
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\songcolumns{1} |
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Another great tool is the guitar tab presenting each chord played in the song. This is done using the *\gtab* command between the *\beginsong* and the first verse (*\beginverse*) or chorus (*\beginchorus*) whichever comes first. I wil not detailled how the *\gtab* command works here but I will just gives some examples with common chords. |
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\gtab{Ré}{XX0232} |
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\gtab{Mi}{022100} |
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\gtab{Fa}{1,022100} |
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To produce a repeat sign you should use the *\rep* command. To repeat four times a line, use the following command. |
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\rep{4} |
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## Example |
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Here is an example of song file that could be used as a starting point to add a new song to the songbook. This is the lyrics and chord information for *Where is my mind* by the Pixies. |
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\beginsong{Where Is My Mind}[by=Pixies] |
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\gtab{La&m}{4,133211} |
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\gtab{La}{5,133211} |
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\gtab{Do#}{4,X13331} |
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\gtab{Si}{2,X13331} |
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\beginverse |
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\beginchorus |
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\[Mi]Where is my \[Do#m]mind? |
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\[La&m] Where is my mind?\[La] |
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\[Mi]Where is my \[Do#m]mind? \[La&m] \[La] |
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\endchorus |
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\beginverse |
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\[Mi]Way \[Labm]out in the \[La]water see it \[Lam]swimmin' \[Do#] {\ldots} \[Si] |
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\endverse |
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\beginverse |
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I was swimmin' in the Carribean |
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Animals were hiding behind the rock |
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Except the little fish |
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But they told me, he swears |
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Tryin' to talk to me to me to me |
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\endverse |
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\endsong |
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## Sending your work for inclusion |
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If you add song to your songbook, why don't you send us your file. We will take a look at it and will be pleased to add it into the official songbook. As always, contributors are welcomed. |
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There is a git repository, at `git://git.lohrun.net/songbook.git`. |
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Songbook is a set of tools used to produce lyricbooks and guitar chordbooks from latex songs file. It is shipped with Crep's and Lohrun's chordbook containing more than 125 songs. Crep's website, <patacrep.com>, gives more information about this project. |
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* [[download]] |
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* [[news]] |
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* [[documentation|doc]] |
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* [[bugs]] |
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* [[contact]] |
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This wiki is powered by [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info). |
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Here comes the annoncements of new releases, features and miscelanious news. |
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Songook users are recommended to subscribe to this page's RSS feed. |
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Great news! I have configured a public git repository for you to checkout the lastest development version. You can get it using: |
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git clone git://git.lohrun.net/songbook.git |
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I have started to work on improvement of the songbook which are available into the git repository. |
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In other news, you may have noticed that my ikiwiki website is now allowing user editing. Soon you will be able to edit songs, that could be automatically used in the chordbook/lyric book. Currently you are restricted to Discussion page but feel free to register and why not asking to get editing rights. |
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A new presentation is used for the website. Now, upates will be provided toward a [[news]] page. Feeds are available on them to stay current on news for this site. An other section has appeared: [[songs]]. |
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Soon, a download section will appear as well as a much more detailled manual. |
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After a small evening of work, I managed to have an ikiwiki plugin working that convert song files into html pages. For the moment, only 4 of them are available in [[songs]]. You can check them out. |
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Further work is needed in order to complete this plugin, for instance displaying tabs; differencing chorus from verses and so on. Stay tuned! |
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I have just pushed a minor update that allow html version to have a distinct appearance between chorus and verses in songs. Stay tuned for the next enhancement. |
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songbook 0.1 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]] |
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+ makefile: Improve handling of multiple main .tex files. For instance, it is now possible to have a lyricbook.tex and chordbook.tex each of them generating a pdf file containing something different. It also now take cares of dependencies over other .tex file or other special files (songs.sbd for instance). |
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+ songs.sty: Minor change to allow songs to contain fret numbers in tabs. The separator is now ',' instead of ':'. |
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songbook 0.2 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]] |
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+ make-index: Alphabetical ordering and hierachy by the first letter now for both title and authors. Do not ignore article before a song's or author's name. |
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+ makefile: Simplified makefile (do not use songs/song.sbd anymore). |
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+ songs: New version from Crep with tabs for every songs. |
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songbook 0.3 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]] |
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+ Major update with many new songs (total of 125 songs) - Crep, Lohrun |
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+ Corrections of a lot of mistakes - Crep |
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+ Include image support - Crep |
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+ Add make-html utility - Lohrun |
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<TMPL_IF news>News for Songbook <TMPL_VAR version>: |
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<TMPL_VAR news> |
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Songbook <TMPL_VAR version> released with [[!toggle text="these changes" id="changelog"]] |
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[[!toggleable id="changelog" text="""<TMPL_VAR changelog>"""]] |
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