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Sing Alongs
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You'll have to build it yourself for the moment until I figure out a good way
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for build downloads.
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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
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music. There are a lot of good resources out there but the one thing I have
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never found was a collection which was free (as in freedom) and usable for
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printing. And if something does not exist why not try and create it yourself?
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At this point I discovered [Lilypond](http://www.lilypond.org/) a wonderful
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project for music engraving. The best part is that it has support for embedding
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its scores in LaTeX files so it is possible to get complex layouts without a
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big hassle. As a programmer I instantly liked the approach because I did not
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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/shu/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
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only time it is updated is for changing layout related stuff or merging a song.
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Songs live in their own branch. If there is an error the branch gets fixed and
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then merged into the master. I am not sure how well this goes with a growing
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number of songs but lets see ;)
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Also, the older songs may not have their own branch yet, so it has to be
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created when the first correction comes up.
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Contact
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You can reach me at [shugentobler@vanwa.ch](mailto:hugentobler@vanwa.ch)
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