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Mon, 10/22/2012 - 19:14 — Haruo
This wiki page is a very good idea, however it has not been updated since it was created 3½ years ago. When I download a current spreadsheet, I am confronted by a number of Data fields that are not mentioned in the Wiki (nor anywhere else that I have seen). It is not clear whether they are things I am expected, or allowed, or denied the right, to fill in when entering a hymnal, nor is it clear, if I am allowed to do so, what the content ought to look like, be, and do. Just from the Page worksheet, here are the fields I see that I don't understand:
Hymn License ID
Text About
Text dnahID
Text Group
Tune Lilypond
Tune About
Tune Group
Are any of these things I should be entering if known? I do wish I knew Lilypond better, would like to be able to typeset my own hymnals... ;-)
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Spreadsheet data fields
These are data fields that could be included in a hymnal so they are included on the spreadsheet if you download the hymnal information as a spreadsheet. They are in the category of optional fields. They do not appear on the blank spreadsheets that you download from the wiki which contains the required and recommended fields. You are not expected to fill them in.
I'd still like to know
I'd still like to know what would be appropriate to enter in them, so I'll know what to do if I face a hymnal with that sort of info in it. I imagine (if I knew enough Lilypond) that I could use that field to enable folks to generate their own pdf's in cases where CCEL or TCH hadn't provided one. In particular I would be interested in the licensing one, I think, as I am guessing it may provide a way in some cases to make visible what copyright law would otherwise force to remain hidden. But I don't know. I'm guessing "dnahID" is something that is filled in by the machine (the way checking "published" generates a whole column of little "p"'s).