planning center import - parsing chord chart

Jacob Barrett
Jacob Barrett Member Posts: 6 ✭✭
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)
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  • Jacob Barrett
    Jacob Barrett Member Posts: 6 ✭✭
    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