bard

Markdown → songbooks.

bard is a songbook compiler that reads Markdown files and produces songbooks in PDF, HTML, and Hovorka.

bard reads files like this:

```Markdown

Wild Mountain Thyme

Irish & Scottish traditional

1. Oh the Gsummer Ctime Ghas come And the Ctrees are sweetly Gbloomin' And the Cwild Gmountain Emthyme Grows Caround the Ambloomin' Cheather Will ye Ggo Classie Ggo?

And we'll Call go Gtogether to pull Cwild Gmountain Emthyme All Caround the Ambloomin' Cheather, will ye Ggo Classie Ggo? ```

... and creates output like this:

Check out the Example PDF from the Example project.

Getting Started

Features

• bard is a command-line tool
• Project-oriented: A single bard.toml defines inputs, outputs and other configuration
• Easy-to-use source format: Markdown
• Output formats:
  • PDF via TeX
  • HTML
  • Hovorka XML
  • JSON and XML for machine processing
• Transposition and notation conversion
  • Optional auto-generated second chord set
• Templating: Outputs are fully customizable with Handlebars templates

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