Songbook is an easy to use tool for creating songbooks where each song is represented by a different file, allowing them to be easily shared or moved between different songbooks. It has its own display module or it can generate LaTeX files and compile them to pdf.
Make sure to have installed everything needed from the Requirements section
You can install this application as a editable package with pip install -e .. This allows using songbook script from cmd
python3 -m songbook.apps.run_gui
songbook run-gui # if installed as packageLaunches GUI application that allows editing and displaying songs.
python3 -m songbook.apps.create_pdf
songbook create_pdf # if installed as package
Generates output PDF in root directory
python3 -m songbook.apps.run_flask
songbook run-flask # if installed as package
Starts a Flask server listening on address 0.0.0.0 with PORT envvar (default: 5000)
python3 -m songbook.apps.freeze_flask
songbook freeze-flask # if installed as package
Files are generated in songbook/src/flask/build directory
docker run -v $(pwd):/app --rm -it mmajewsk/songbook
and you can run the commands as above. Note that any command involving GUI may require additional setup, depending on the OS.
SONGBOOK_DATA_DIR - directory in which songbook categories are located
PORT - port to start Flask server on
The configuration can be altered by modifying the config.json file.
format - e.g. a4paper, a5paper
sides - oneside/twoside - if twoside is set pdf will have inner and outer margins and will include a blank page if chapter would start on an even page otherwise
margins -
- horizontal - inner in case of twoside option, left otherwise
- vertical - top margin
fontSize - basic size of the font, supports sizes 10, 11, 12
lyricsFont, chordsFont - one of the fontcodes available e.g. here: https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Font_typefaces#Reference_guide
- Python 3.8+ (builds are tested with 3.12)
- aiofiles
- all modules listed in requirements.txt
- pdfTeX (suggested distribution - TeXLive)
- pdfTeX
- requirements_full.txt