Creating a summary sheet from a song book

[kdaniel7979]

I have a songbook with approx. 300 songs. My format is

Heading 1 (Song name, Artist)
Body Text

This looks like this:

A Hard Day's Night, The Beatles

G C G F G
It's been a hard day's night, and I've been working like a dog,
G C G F G
It's been a hard day's night; I should be sleeping like a log,

etc…….



Satisfaction, The Rolling Stones
E A E A
I can't get no satisfaction I can't get no satisfaction

etc…….




I have a TOC that list all the songs, which is fine, but another thing
I would really like to set up in addition, is a summary sheet very
similar to my orig. TOC, that tells me the song and the main chords.

I’m looking for a result similar to this:

A Hard Day's Night, The Beatles G C G F G
Satisfaction, The Rolling Stones E A E A

I thought that I might be able to do this with comments, but have
reached my limits.

Anyone out there have any thoughts?

Thanks

 

[Robert M. Franz [RMF]]

Hello Daniel

I have a songbook with approx. 300 songs. My format is

Heading 1 (Song name, Artist)
Body Text

This looks like this:

A Hard Day's Night, The Beatles

G C G F G
It's been a hard day's night, and I've been working like a dog,
G C G F G
It's been a hard day's night; I should be sleeping like a log,

etc…….



Satisfaction, The Rolling Stones
E A E A
I can't get no satisfaction I can't get no satisfaction

etc…….




I have a TOC that list all the songs, which is fine, but another thing
I would really like to set up in addition, is a summary sheet very
similar to my orig. TOC, that tells me the song and the main chords.

I’m looking for a result similar to this:

A Hard Day's Night, The Beatles G C G F G
Satisfaction, The Rolling Stones E A E A

I thought that I might be able to do this with comments, but have
reached my limits.

Anyone out there have any thoughts?

besides doing it manually -- maybe TC field entries and a separate TOC
that compiles these.

But building these entries doesn't sound like a good investment of time
(i.e., it's probably more work ...).

If the structure of your document is really clean, a custom macro might
be a better approach.

HTH
Robert