Liderbukh

A program to create beautiful lead sheets using Python, Lilypond, and LaTeX, with templates and a collection of Yiddish folksongs

Visit the collection: https://liderbukh.jews.international/

Dependencies:

Python 3

Modules:

• pyratemp
• yaml
• click
• mistune

Lilypond and lilypond-book

XeLaTeX

Packages:

• multicol
• verse
• fontspec
• graphicx
• polyglossia
• fancyhdr

Font: Drugulin CLM

• Link to the font on GitHub

Usage

$ chmod +x liderbukh.py
$ ./liderbukh.py --help
usage: liderbukh.py [-h] [-d] [-n] [-i] [query [query ...]]

positional arguments:
  query             list of entries to compile

optional arguments:
  -h, --help        show this help message and exit
  -d, --display     display data tree or query
  -n, --no-write    generate tree but don't write any files
  -i, --index-only  write index.html only

TODO (in no particular order):

• Add option to create a single, book-style pdf
• Add transposition support?
• Make some meta fields required
• Add auto generated "version" and "last updated" field to song meta, and display it in the index and possibly in the pdf.
• Add html templates for individual songs, with notes