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Scribus and Gregorio (in a Windows environment), any automation gurus out there?

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After lurking here for a time and going through the documentation on the gregorio github site, I've finally got everything running smoothly in Windows 10. I opted out of doing the full install of TeX Live, so it was a trying experience to find all of the individual packages that needed to be installed for gregorio to give me any output, but it was all worthwhile. I can now just paste GABC coding into the editor and it spits out some fancy-looking chant :)

I tinkered with the TeX options a bit so the name of the chant would automatically get added in small caps to the title line:
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This helps save some time when pulling scores from the outstanding GregoBase website.

At my parish, we're currently using some old-school (Xerox) cut and paste jobs to organize the responses, ordinaries, and propers for the choirs each week, so I figured I'd try building the responses/ordinaries pages in Scribus and came up with the attached PDF. As we gradually introduce more Latin to the congregation, I hope to eventually replace all of the English responses.

So now to complicate things... Has anyone had any experience in getting Scribus to pull data from an external source? My goal would be to automate the creation of a propers document similar to how the GABC Transcription Tool can pull a particular set of scores based on the week of the Liturgical Calendar.

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