Legacy Songbook conversion process

Overview of legacy conversion process and progress

Done

• Merge 3 legacy Word songbooks into single big Word doc
• Strip out chord tab graphics (will be generated by latex)
• Create Word styles to identify different structural elements (title, comments, tips etc)
• Broad parsing of content to apply relevant styles to each element
• Mark inline chords with [brackets] and remove [] used elsewhere
• Convert above-the-line chord spacing from tabs to spaces (experiment for best fit for each font size)
• Convert Word styles to structural markup
• Export to plain text marked-up master file

In progress

• Process plain text file using script to:
• • Iteratively spot and amend source Word glitches
• • Split to new file at each new title (title as l/c filename, subst _ for space) DONE
• • Drop above-the-line chords into best inline fit (Vish's script?) IN PROGRESS
• • Convert structural markup to human-readable text format
• • Convert chord abbreviations [] to latex standard \upchord{} LOOKUP TABLE NEEDED
• • Convert structural markup to latex markup

To Do

• Test for functional compliance with latex songbook standard (reference?)

NB exact sequence of text-processing actions still provisional at this stage.

Share to team

• Publish drafts to main repo
• Proofing, play-testing and editing individual songs as necessary