Recommendations for Software to Create a Song Book

[Tbushell]

@TheMadman_tobyjenner

Yes as I explained, it was an example of manually adding tab. ie type in all the characters.
To make it it clearer I just edited the tab and added an open E.

Thanks, that makes sense to me now. You just put the fret numbers in a single column.

I find for more exotic chords, fingering is very important. I suppose you could also put that in a separate column… And since it’s plain text, you could use letters instead of numbers to avoid confusion. eg

0
0
1 I
2 R
2 M
0

[TheMadman_tobyjenner]

As I say I don’t use it for chords and am happy with them sitting over the lyrics, if I’ve learnt the song regardless of what chords I am playing, SBP is there as a reference opposed to a learning tool. But what ever works for you.

[drNine]

It seems like none of the Songbook Apps supports the full chordpro spec. The best process might be to use the official chordpro tooling, generate pdfs and import those pdfs? Or are some features not available importing pdfs?

[TheMadman_tobyjenner]

@drNine

the full chordpro spec

Can you clarify ? Songbook Pro supports Chordpro.

[drNine]

But obviously not the full spec. As mentioned above the “define” directive for example doesn’t seem to work.

[TheMadman_tobyjenner]

Have you reached out to the SBP developers and discussed this with them ? They seem quite helpful, so may be worth enquiring further.

[drNine]

I’ll give it a try. Seems like OnSong supports more or less the full spec. I will have a look at that too, before accepting a more complex process involving pdfs.

[TheMadman_tobyjenner]

@drNine

complex process involving pdfs.

Just use the import option, not complex at all and as easy as importing tab from UH for example.

[drNine]

It involves one more step. Instead of writing chordpro and directly use it within the app I have to create the pdf and import the pdf instead. And I’m not sure if all features work with pdfs (transposing e.g. will not work I guess).