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Help Adding Songs
Posted by: Wailer (---.austin.res.rr.com)
Date: August 16, 2005 06:38PM

How do I keep the words, and tabs aligned when I try to add a song by copying/pasting.

Can someone advise on this?

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Re: Help Adding Songs
Posted by: Wailer (---.austin.res.rr.com)
Date: August 17, 2005 02:17AM

Bump

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Re: Help Adding Songs
Posted by: djlactose (---.dyn.optonline.net)
Date: August 17, 2005 03:28AM

If you create the tab on the website and align everything properly you it will work. The other thing you can do is create the tab using Courier as the font and a font size of 9.


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Re: Help Adding Songs
Posted by: Wailer (---.austin.res.rr.com)
Date: August 17, 2005 04:26AM

Hey thanks for the info. I create alot of tab in My Documents for my own tab notebook.

So are you saying that any future tabs I create in Word, if I used "courier"
as the font, and "9" as the font size, I can then copy and paste from My Documents to here, and the tab and words will be aligned correctly?

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Re: Help Adding Songs
Posted by: pharpy (---.sip.mob.bellsouth.net)
Date: August 17, 2005 04:38PM

Actually, you can use any monospace font at any point size. Just make sure it's monospace and not proportional.

Examples of fonts to use:

Andale Mono
Lucida Console
Courier
Courier New
Monospace.com (It really is a font, not a website)
OCR Extended (Although this one looks funny)
Terminal (Basically the old ASCII font)

Examples of fonts to avoid:
Book Antiqua
Georgia
Times
Roman
Times New Roman
Arial
Tahoma
Verdana

Personally, I like to use either Notepad++ or Prolix text editor and then cut and paste. Whatever editor you use, just be sure to set the font to a monospace font so that everything can be lined up. The size doesn't matter, it's just personal preference to what you find easy to read. When you cut and paste to the site's input box, you won't be copying any of the formatting, just the characters, spacings, and line returns.

(By formatting, I mean the particular font used, any settings like bold or italic, and the point size of the font.)


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Re: Help Adding Songs
Posted by: Wailer (---.austin.res.rr.com)
Date: August 18, 2005 02:59AM

Ok, thanks for the info. It helps save time being able to cut, and paste and have everything fall into place.

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