Hello, I wanted to share an idea for speeding up the arrangement of the latex code for large Gregorio projects.
I was inspired by Adam Bartlett's use of the CONCATENATE function to enter information about chants in discreet columns of a spreadsheet and use CONCATENATE to join the data together into an integrated GABC header. (cf. https://spreadsheets0.google.com/ccc?authkey=CPnA-foE&hl=en_US&key=trB5pDUeJVx7TLjqDhDftMQ&hl=en_US&authkey=CPnA-foE#gid=0 ) Given the difficulties at the moment of utilizing data from the gabc header in a large latex file with many different chants, however, I determined a way of using a similar technique to manipulate the master tex file through a spreadsheet. You can see a basic example of my process here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ar3O2_3mRMEjdDJITk52aVhveE54VmQ5aDVLWFRxZ0E&hl=en_US&authkey=CMTq3IgN Basically, you input data like the mode, file-name, rubric, and so forth, into different columns on a spreadsheet, then use CONCATENATE (e.g.: =CONCATENATE(B1," \subsection{",C1,"} ",E1," \includescore{",F1,".tex} ",G1) to put them together into a single cell which you can then copy into your latex file. I've found that this can save me quite a bit of time in rearranging material, due to the ease of sorting spreadsheets. (My references to the modes rely on the mode macros I described in a previous email: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00693.html). I hope this may be useful for others; please let me know if you have any suggestions for improving the process. Yours, br. Innocent, op
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