Dear Sister,
I really hope someone will share his/her instructions or templates to
create books or booklets with Gregorio and LaTex only!
We're planning for months to create a new Antiphonale Monasticum
according to our needs, but there are many uncertainties about how to do
it, and so no one dares to start. Any help is precious for us.
I particularly like br. Innocent's work, and personally I hope we'll
manage to do everything with LaTex to avoid enormous files and not to
multiply sisters involved in.
Here are a few advices:
I think you can separate the project in two more or less independent
subprojects:
1. the first is to make a precise structure of the book you need and to
list all the score, precising the conventions (accents, i or j ae or æ,
etc.). Once have everything the biggest part of this subproject is to
type and proofread everything in gabc! Using gregobase, I believe, is
the best solution! This can be started now and will take time I believe...
2. the second is to make the layout of your book and to type the text.
My advice for this part is first to specify precisely the layout you
want, and then to ask someone (I volunteer) to make it into LaTeX. To
specify the layout, you should work with someone who is used to edition,
doing it as amateur can be very long and painful, as there are many
things to know before specifying a professional layout (which, I
believe, is what you want for this kind of publication). Without this
kind of help, it can be a good start to copy a layout: take a book you
want your book to look like, and ask someone to make this layout in
LaTeX, with a commented file in which you'll easily change important
values (paper size, margins, fonts, etc.). Once you'll have it, there
are a few good practices to get before starting to type the text, but
the biggest part will be done!
Thank you,
--
Elie
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