Fixing font size

Hi. We're using "import from elvanto" to manage songs and it's working great. thanks for setting that up. having some issues with font size. When a line is too long it is shrinking font size, sometimes marginally but enough to notice between songs. i've noticed when putting lyrics directly into proclaim a box will appear warning that font size is shrunk... this doesn't seem to happen when importing from elvanto.

Would it be possible to stop font size adjusting or even show what font size is being used when it is being automatically adjusted? Or even allow line wrap as an option?

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Justin (Faithlife)

Hello Mike,

Have you tried increasing the size of the lyric text box itself as well? You should be able to select the corners of the text box and drag it out, allowing more room for increased font size or longer lyric lines.

Mike

It's a full size text box. And the point is, how do I know when I need to do something like this? The textbox says text is size 50 but it's not and there's no warning. I have found myself even holding a ruler to the screen to compare songs because I can't tell if my eyes are playing tricks on me re auto-size adjustment.

Justin (Faithlife)

We'll take a look into the absence of a warning for you. However Proclaim won't break up lines upon import, as it may confuse people about the original structure of the song.

Justin (Faithlife)

Hello,

So we did some testing. You will receive a warning if a particular verse line is too long, and needs to be downsized to fit the width of the text box, but you won't necessarily receive a warning if the font is reformatted because there are too many lines to fit the box vertically.

What you could do is, if you see some of your verses/choruses filling the entire height of the text box, you could break those verse/choruses up so they appear on separate slides.

We'll make note of experience and look into if we can make this behavior more clear to people.