On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 15:45 +0100, Colin Brough wrote:
> What tool or tools would folk suggest for this job?
>
> I have the lyrics for 5000+ songs (they are Christian hymns, for use
> in church). They are currently in a single text file like this:
>
> [CH3-001] 1. All people that on earth do dwell,
> [CH3-001] Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice.
> [CH3-001] Him serve with mirth, his praise forth tell,
> [CH3-001] Come ye before him and rejoice.
> [CH3-001]
> [CH3-001] 2. Know that the Lord is God indeed;
> [CH3-001] Without our aid he did us make,
> [CH3-001] We are his flock, he doth us feed,
> [CH3-001] And for his sheep he doth us take.
> [MP-0001]
> [MP-0001] A new commandment I give unto you,
> [MP-0001] that you love one another as I have loved you,
> [MP-0001] that you love one another as I have loved you.
> [MP-0001]
> [MP-0001] By this shall all men know that you are my disciples,
> [MP-0001] if you have love one for another.
> [MP-0001] By this shall all men know that you are my disciples,
> [MP-0001] if you have love one for another.
> [MP-0003] Abba Father, let me be
> [MP-0003] Yours and Yours alone.
> [MP-0003] May my will for ever be
> [MP-0003] Evermore Your own.
> [MP-0003] Never let my heart grow cold,
> [MP-0003] Never let me go,
> [MP-0003] Abba Father, let me be
> [MP-0003] Yours and Yours alone.
>
> The CH3 and MP denote the hymn book the song came from, the number is
> the number in the book, and the rest of the line is lyric.
>
> I'd love to end up with a bunch of PowerPoint or OpenOffice Impress
> presentation files, one for each song:
>
> CH3-001.sxi
> MP-0001.sxi
> MP-0003.sxi etc!
>
> I have never done any OpenOffice scripting - I've glanced at
> openoffice.org, but couldn't get my head round what things there...
>
> Would I be best to split the stuff up into per-song text files, and
> then (somehow!) call openoffice on each song to import the text and
> save as a presentation?
>
> Or would I be better to write the whole thing as an openoffice script?
> Wouldn't know where to begin!!
>
> Or are there other ways round this?
>
> I'd probably prefer to end up with .ppt rather than .sxi as the
> machine that will be displaying them will be a Windows laptop not
> under my control - but I can save then as .ppt as I need to easily
> enough if I'm not having to start a fresh presentation each time!!
>
> Cheers
>
> Colin
>
I have given your project some thought and would like to make some
simple suggestions that may or may not help but should get you at least
part way to your goal.
My suggestion is to import your hymn file into Calc as a fixed field
file and set the columns where you want to break. e.g. column 1 is your
song number, column 2 the verses. You can then insert selected sections
into a slide.
Worth a try?
You might also like to have a look at the following links for other
songs and ideas:
1. http://www.cpdl.org/
2. http://www.cyberhymnal.org/
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