You may find it instructive to look at Visual Liturgy at
<http://www.vislit.com/index.html>

Some quotes from the marketing web site...
It does hymns too!

Iain


"What is Visual Liturgy?
Visual Liturgy is a software package that enables you to plan and prepare
liturgy and worship services.

The Visual Liturgy project is run by Church House Publishing on behalf of
the Archbishops' Council of the Church of England. Unsurprisingly,
therefore, the main editions of Visual Liturgy are usually for the Church
of England.

Visual Liturgy 4.0, the current version, contains all of the Common Worship
material published in November 2000 including both texts and the Common
Worship three-year lectionary (as published in the printed Common Worship).
It also includes New Patterns for Worship, which was published in November
2002.

As well as the Anglican editions, there is also an edition for The
Methodist Worship Book as well as a number of add-on modules to complement
the main editions. You can find out more about the different editions and
modules in the VLography section of this web site.

Put simply, Visual Liturgy as a software package, allows you to specify a
calendar date and a type of service. The software then identifies what the
date is in the church year, finds the right readings, the collect and other
items, and displays the complete service."

"What's in the hymn database?
Visual Liturgy includes over 5,000 popular hymns and songs cross-referenced
to dozens of books, with the full text provided for items that are out of
copyright.

There is also a complete index for each of the following books:

A&M New Standard
Mission Praise Combined
Songs and Hymns of Fellowship Combined
Spring Harvest 97
New English Hymnal
For hymns and songs that are still under copyright restrictions, Visual
Liturgy is only able to provide the first lines. In general, this is true
for authors and composers who are still alive or have died in the last 70
years.

Full texts are available for approximately 1,000 hymns and songs in Visual
Liturgy, all of which are out of copyright. There are also two add-on
modules available - The Hymns and Worship Songs of the Canterbury Press and
SongSelect - which provide the full texts for many hymns and songs which
are still in copyright."






--
Iain Stinson
Director
Computing Services Department
The University of Liverpool
PO Box 147
Liverpool L69 3BX
Telephone: 0151 794 3716
Fax: 0151 794 3759

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