LaTeX by itself is definitely viable. I did originally consider using Scribus, but my biggest problem was in keeping things consistent, something which, not suprisingly, an algorithm-based solution like TeX excels at doing.
I produced a booklet for our parish's Triduum morning prayer services. The book was typeset completely in LaTeX, using Gregorio for the chant and Lilypond for the polyphonic "Lord, hear our prayer." The psalms were pointed as opposed to written out, so I used a script (written in Ruby, for no other reason than it being my preference) to convert text files containg Psalm strophes into TeX (to be included in the main file) for consistency. I also wrote some macros to format the sections and psalms consistently, such as bold-facing congregation parts and ensuring that the psalm tone is re-printed at the top of the verso when the psalm text overflows the recto. I used the memoir document class for flexibility in page layout, and other packages like calc and ifthen to support my layout macros. A UNIX makefile runs all the pre-processors, gregorio, lualatex, etc., to bring everything together. This allowed me to produce several versions, like an ebook version, a print-ready Postscript file (using pdf2ps to impose the text with creep adjustment), and even a contact sheet to judge the layout at a distance. I wonder if there is a good way to share my project with the world without violating copyrights (i.e., the Psalm texts). As an aside, printing with red lines (with matching red accent text) looks really beautiful, and is something that is very difficult to do with font-only systems like the St. Meinrad fonts or Caeciliae. Regards, Henry On Saturday, 23 November 2013 at 08:37:04 am -0500, Innocent Smith wrote: > Thanks to Olivier for starting this list and Richard for adding it to the > Wiki — I think it'll be helpful to give people more concrete senses of the > great possibilities of Gregorio. > > In the case of the Hymnarium, it was produced almost entirely with Gregorio > and LaTeX — the only InDesign work involved was the cover. I am very happy > that we were able to produce such a large book with LaTeX as the main > basis, particularly as it saved a lot of time with the automation of the > indexes, the cross references, and so forth. At some point in the coming > months, I am hoping to write a description of the lessons I learned about > page layout and project management in the process, to help others who might > want to undertake similar projects with Gregorio/LaTeX. > > > On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 6:24 AM, Olivier Berten > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Thanks! > > > > What might also be interesting is a short word about the techniques used. > > For instance, Steven Van Roode (who has also typeset the Lumen Christi > > Missal and the Simple English Propers) uses Gregorio only for the notes, > > then tweaks the result with Illustrator and does the final typesetting with > > InDesign. I don't know if all the others do it all with TeX but it might be > > interesting to know which flavour they use and maybe some interesting > > tricks ;-) Does anybody actually use Scribus? > > > > Olivier > > > > > > 2013/11/23 Richard Chonak <[email protected]> > > > >> I've added a list to the Gregorio wiki at > >> > >> > >> http://gregoriochant.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/gregowiki:start?&#works_produced_with_gregorio > >> > >> --Richard > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Gregorio-users mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Gregorio-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gregorio-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users _______________________________________________ Gregorio-users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users
