I am the designated techie for our ukulele group but I am working way above my pay grade and need some help.
I need to replace song sheet chord names (e.g. Bm, D7, C, etc. ) with codes that convert these chord names to ukulele chord diagrams (using Chordette fonts installed on my Mac). Libra Office Find and Replace works fine with single instances. How can I do multiple replacements on the same document at the same time. Assuming this can be done can I then do same for multiple files (song sheets)?
An example of what I am currently doing: find instances of [Am] and replace with “a” in in font named GCEAchordA. (Note that the chord names are actually enclosed with square brackets-it’s not a coding embellishment).
LibreOffice does the single transformations flawlessly. I am able to do a F&R-one at a time-without any problem. There might be several iterations up to 6-8 chords on a single piece of music. I repeat this process for each chord name that needs conversion. Tedious but effective.
An example of what I want to do at the same time: Transform [Am] to code a, and [C7] to code J and [E7] to code H, etc.
If I can do the multiple replacements simultaneously the next step would be to do multiple files (song sheets) at the same time. Am looking at about 100 song sheets that need editing.
Any help would be appreciated.
Paul Fishman
Santa Rosa, CA
