The Balham Ukulele Society Songbook Project
Songsheet Maker
This is a simple Rails application that allows a user to write a song up in our simple format and have it converted to the LaTeX format we use in our Songbook projects. It is a utility app that allows a user to add the song into a songbook -- See the songbook project: https://github.com/ukulele/songbook -- as a properly-formatted LaTeX file.
The application is designed to run on Heroku and has minimal features.
Simple song format example
Ace Of Spades by Motorhead - copyright held by original rights holders.
// first line is title
// second line is artist
// third line is some useful note for the song, must be present as ** even if rest of the line is blank
** Ace Of Spades
** Motorhead
** notes-notes
// chords begin here, do not use numbers in the chords, only letters
** chords
Bmajor
Cmajor
Dmajor
Emajor
Gmajor
Aseven
Aminor
Asusfour
chords **
// chords end here
// add two backslashes (\\) for an extra line
[E]Intro\\
[G]If you like to gamble, I tell you I'm your man
[G]You win some, lose some, it's all the same to me[E]
[D]The pleasure is to [C]play, it makes no difference what you say[E]
[D]I don't share your [C]greed, the only card I need is\\
(x2)[E]The Ace Of Spades
Alright\\
...And so on and so forth
The Balham Ukulele Society Songbooks project by Vish Vishvanath, Matt Gunning, Alyn Gwyndaf, Charlie Ullman, et al is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.