planning center import - parsing chord chart

Jacob Barrett

It would be super helpful if when you pull in the chord chart/lyrics from planning center you would parse "::" as a new line

It's the behavior of Planning Center's system, and it allows me to have chord charts with longer lines for my musicians (to fit the chart on a single page) but then it also not have to go in and manually add the line breaks back in for Proclaim

Otherwise ... the importing feature is almost worthless to me (it'd be faster for me to run it through another app to parse it myself rather than let Proclaim do the importing)

Jacob Barrett

Here's an example of what I have in Planning Center

Gr[C]eat is Thy [Fmaj7]faithfulness:: [G7]O God my Fath[C]er:: th[F]ere is no [C/E]shadow:: of [D/A]turning with Th[G]ee
Th[G]ou changest n[C]ot:: Thy compassions they [Fmaj7]fail not:: as Thou hast [C/G]been:: Thou forever [G]wilt b[C]e

And here's what I would expect to see in proclaim

Great is Thy faithfulness
O God my Father
there is no shadow
of turning with Thee

Thou changest not
Thy compassions they fail not
as Thou hast been
Thou forever wilt be

(I grant that I make the assumption that I'll almost only ever have four lines per slide ... so you guys might not want to make that assumption in your logic which is fine if there's no extra space between those section, it'd still save me a ton of time not having to manually do that ... though that could be a setting to default to four lines per slide ... haha)

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Also ... another "nice-to-have" setting would be to remove any " - " between word syllables
That's something I don't want on my slides but do include in my chord charts

How d[D]eep the Father's [Em]love [D/F#] for [G]us:: how [D/F#]vast beyond all [Asus]mea - [A]sure
That [D]He should give His [Em]on - [D/F#]ly S[G]on:: to [D/F#]make a wretch His tr[A]ea - s[D]ure

Would ideally look like:

How deep the Father's love for us
how vast beyond all measure
That He should give His only Son
to make a wretch His treasure