Import songs with formatting

Corné
Corné Member Posts: 3 ✭
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Since it is now possible to change formatting of song lyrics letter by letter, we would like to use it to insert psalms with rhythm information. So every syllable can be italics or not depending on the rhythm.

I have all the psalms with the correct formatting and would like to import it into Proclaim. Is this possible and what kind of format do I need to use. I can create a small script to generate a specific format if necessary.

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  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 55,539

    bumping this post in hopes of getting a useful response

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  • Mike Binks
    Mike Binks MVP Posts: 7,461

    Corné said:

    Since it is now possible to change formatting of song lyrics letter by letter, we would like to use it to insert psalms with rhythm information. So every syllable can be italics or not depending on the rhythm.

    I have all the psalms with the correct formatting and would like to import it into Proclaim. Is this possible and what kind of format do I need to use. I can create a small script to generate a specific format if necessary.

    Not absolutely sure that I understand what you want to accomplish.

    Could you post a mock up (use the paper clip)?

    What happens if you simply copy and paste?

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  • Corné
    Corné Member Posts: 3 ✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1277186#Comment_1277186

    8371.Sample Psalm 42.1.rtf

    This is a sample of a song. I tried copy pasting it from word or wordpad but then it paste the whole song as italics and not specific syllables 

  • Mike Binks
    Mike Binks MVP Posts: 7,461
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1277187#Comment_1277187

    Hi Corné

    Please use the paper clip to attach documents to posts. There are a number of folk who are very wary of allowing stuff to download onto their computers.

    Corné said:

    I tried copy pasting it from word or wordpad but then it paste the whole song as italics and not specific syllables 

    I opened your rtf in word and placed the cursor in the document, Cmd+A highlighted the text, Cmd+C copied it to my clipboard, Cmd+V produced the results below...

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  • Corné
    Corné Member Posts: 3 ✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1277277#Comment_1277277

    I figured out why it didn't do single syllables cursive, we use a custom imported font which didn't have cursive and normal in the same weight. As soon as I added the extra font it worked when c. 

    But just to double check, it is not possible to do an automatic import using import media->song lyrics in any format?

  • Mike Binks
    Mike Binks MVP Posts: 7,461
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1277314#Comment_1277314

    Corné said:

    But just to double check, it is not possible to do an automatic import using import media->song lyrics in any format?

    That is beyond my ken Corné. I tend to either use song select or to copy and paste from www.hymnary.org .

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