Questions tagged [songs]

{songs} is a package capable of producing songbooks.

The songs package is capable of producing songbooks with chords over the lyrics, songbooks with just lyrics, and sets of overhead slides for corporate singing. Chords can consist of chord names or guitar tablature diagrams but not full sheet music.

Lyric books, chord books, and slide sets are all generated automatically from a single master document. That way you can print lyric books for singers, chord books for musicians, and slides for the congregational singing, without having to maintain three separate documents. The documents produced by the software are typically in PDF format, but can be in any of the many electronic formats supported by LaTeX.

The CTAN version is outdated, check the package homepage for new updates.

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Recent Update Broke "Songs" Package

PS: I hate to bump this, but I really need to revisit this issue. What are my options at this point? Can I temporarily use an older version of latex (how?), or some alternative version of packages other than songs? I am using the songs package to…
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Error occur in songs package

Here i have taken the LaTeX code from songs package manual \documentclass{article} \usepackage[chorded]{songs} \noversenumbers \begin{document} \songsection{Worship Songs} \begin{songs}{} \beginsong{Doxology}[by={Louis Bourgeois and Thomas Ken},…
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Songs order alphabeticallly

I was wondering if it's possible to order the songs in alphabetical when generate the pdf file using the package "songs" also if they was written in another order in source code. As a Minimal Working Example of source code, you can consider the…
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Using songs.sty, how do I make a small index not consume the entire page?

I'm building a song book with the songs package from songs.sourceforge.net and I'm trying to create topical indexes for songs. The small indexes consume an entire page each. I'd like to squeeze them so they don't take up a whole page. Here's an…
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Center page content in songs package

I want to use the songs package to create a single lyrics sheet. All the enumeration stuff hence is not really interesting, and I would like to have the lyrics centered on the page rather then aligned on the left hand side. I tried fiddling around…
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Songs package does not generate PDF booksmarks with lua/xelatex

The following MWE produces PDF bookmarks for the each \beginsong when compiled with pdflatex, but not when compiled with…
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songs package: how to store gtab definitions in an external file?

I'm using the Songs latex package. I'm currently defining the guitar fret diagrams of a chord for each song, but I'd like to define them in an external file to include them in each song (in order to not repeat myself). How can I do this? The…
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Songs Package Entry Sorting

I'm looking for suggestions on how to sort entries for songbook entries made with the songs package. The package documentation covers how to sort index entries, but appears silent on the issue of sorting the song entries themselves. It would seem…
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"Songs" Package Automatic Chord Diagrams

this is my first post, so thanks in advance for patience with me. I have been using the "Songs" package to generate song books with chords in them. I often find it useful to use the "gtab" command to generate chord diagrams at the beginning of the…
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Measure bars only in line above the text (songs Package)

When using the songs package, I like to use the measure bars to indicate when some chords are only, for example, two strums each. The usual approach seems to be to just put the | pipe symbol in the line directly; this results in a bar in both the…
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Change song number font color with songs.sty

I'm using songs.sty to create a songbook. I figured out how to change the background color of the song number boxes by redefining \snumbgcolor like \renewcommand{\snumbgcolor}{green}. I can also change the background color in the index with…
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Special Characters incorrectly displayed

I am using the "songs package" to compile a songbook. Originally I had an issue where none of the special characters in my native language would appear in the produced pdf. #Alan Munn helped me to resolve 99% of my original issue by adding the…
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In the "Songs" package, how do I customize the song number?

I'm using the Songs package and would like to have rounded corners for the song number and center the song number inside the rounded square. I already changed the grey color to orange. How to customize with rounded corners? How to vertically and…
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Songs package - line breaks in first verse with chords not correct

I have a songbook based on the songs package. I migrated to the latest version of MikTex 22.12. Now the first verse no longer looks well. The last line of the first verse has a negative indent, and the same for the chorus. It seems to be related to…
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Can I use custom lowercase chord names with 'songs' package while using `\transpose` feature?

I'm writing a songbook with the (quite good!) songs package. I want to leverage its transposition ability, but I noticed something from the manual: if I want to use the solfedge note names (i.e. the latin ones, Do - Re - Mi etc.), I must use them in…
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