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Sing Alongs
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Motivation
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I love to play the tin whistle and around 2012 I was looking for some sheet
music. There are a lot of good resources out there but the one thing I have
never found was a collection which was free (as in freedom) and usable for
printing. And if something does not exist why not try and create it yourself?
At this point I discovered [Lilypond](http://www.lilypond.org/) a wonderful
project for music engraving. The best part is that it has support for embedding
its scores in LaTeX files so it is possible to get complex layouts without a
big hassle. As a programmer I instantly liked the approach because I did not
need a big editor but could just write text files which I then could manage
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with something like [git](http://git-scm.com/).
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Development
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Main development happens at https://code.vanwa.ch/sing-alongs but there is a
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mirror of the git repository on [Github](https://github.com/thallian/sing_alongs).
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The master branch contains only full songs (lyrics, melody and chords) and the
only time it is updated is for changing layout related stuff or merging a song.
Songs live in their own branch. If there is an error the branch gets fixed and
then merged into the master. I am not sure how well this goes with a growing
number of songs but lets see ;)
Also, the older songs may not have their own branch yet, so it has to be
created when the first correction comes up.
Contact
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You can reach me at [shugentobler@vanwa.ch](mailto:hugentobler@vanwa.ch)