Songwrite Songwrite is a tablature editor that uses Timidity for playing MIDI and Lilypond for printing.
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Songwrite is a tablature editor that uses Timidity for playing MIDI and Lilypond for printing. Songwrite is a tablature editor that uses Timidity for playing MIDI and Lilypond for printing. Songwrite is coded in Python and uses Tk (Tkinter); it relies on Timidity to play midi and on GNU Lilypond for printing.Songwrite was previously known as GTablature. Due to many incompatibilities between Gnome 1 and Gnome 2, it is no longer a part of Gnome, and has been renamed Songwrite. There is a file compatibility is preserved between GTablature and Songwrite.Untar the tarball.Then you can immediately check Songwrite by running the ./songwrite script.Songwrite now uses Python's DistUtils for installation. To install Songwrite, type (as root):cd Songwrite-XXXpython ./setup.py installNB: You'll get a warning at the end ("warning: install: modules installed to '/usr/share/'..."); you can safely ignore this warning.You can now run Songwrite by typing songwrite in a console.By default, Songwrite is installed in /usr, you can modify the setup.cfg file if you prefer another location.Requirements:· It requires Python 2.2 or +, and EditObj.· A recent version (>= 2.3.12) of GNU Lilypond is mandatory for printing. What's New in This Release:· Icon added· Use package graphicx in latex exports· Songbooks now save the song filenames with path relative to the songbook filename

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