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Thu, 01/03/2013 - 00:30 — Haruo

I was surprised to see that the specimen full text at god_rest_ye_merry_gentlemen was Trinity Hymnal (1961)'s first version of "Praise the Lord: ye heavens adore him" (screenshot). The more I looked at it and its surrounding context (screenshot) the more I became convinced that this hymnal needs to be redone from the ground up. Most of the hymns seem to be one row off from their intended tunes, but I don't know what VALUE# is about.

I'm going to try to fix it at least so that God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen has some version of the proper text showing as Full Text exemplar... If I fail... someone please pick up the pieces and glue them back in place. Thx


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Thu, 01/03/2013 - 00:40 — Haruo

I don't have access to a copy of this hymnal, so I am not in a position to be the one who redoes it. Sorry. I did succeed in getting "God rest you" to switch to Rejoice in the Lord for its exemplar text.

Fri, 01/04/2013 - 03:10 — Haruo

The problems, or at least a major portion of them, appeared to begin with tune name Under His Wings, which was given for both hymn #78B and #79. So I deleted the #79 tune name and moved everything up, so Joanna appears as the tune name for #79, which at least works metrically. This appears to fix a lot of the problems with inappropriate tune names.

I also blanked out the full text for #160A and #160B, and cleared the contents of the cells that read VALUE#. Without a copy of the hymnal in front of me, I am reluctant to attempt more.

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