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

In progress

• Convert above-the-line chord spacing from tabs to spaces (experiment for best fit)

To Do

• Convert Word styles to structural markup (useful to liaise with Mark re new song Word template)
• Export to plain text marked-up master file
• Drop above-the-line chords into best inline fit (Vish's script?)
• Process plain text file using script to
• • Split to new file at each new title
• • Convert structural markup to latex markup
• 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