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#31

Repertoire Help / Re: Guitar Tab section

Last post by arlo - June 14, 2026, 08:54:05 PM

In the new app version 2026-06-12 released today, you can define text styles on the Repertoire > Text Styles page, then map those styles to ChordPro verse, chorus, bridge and comment directives. They will be converted when importing or exporting ChordPro files. More info is here:

https://www.bandhelper.com/tutorials/adding_lyrics.html#styles

#32

Repertoire Help / Re: Let's discuss lyrics/chord...

Last post by arlo - June 14, 2026, 08:50:52 PM

A consistent format where texts are tagged according to purpose (verse, chorus, bridge, comment, header, chord etc) would IMHO be much preferred. Every user could then apply his/her own colour-scheme (theme) with character-attributes for each tag without risking that another users preferences affect their output.

In the new app version 2026-06-12 released today, you can define text styles on the Repertoire > Text Styles page, then apply those styles when editing lyrics. If you later update the styles, the songs where you applied them will update automatically.

I did NOT make the text styles user specific. I decided that allowing each user to have their own styles is not worth the extra effort of each user defining the styles. However, the styles themselves can be assigned to specific users and will only appear for the users they are assigned to. Currently you cannot apply multiple styles for different users to the same block of text, but that's still on my to do list. Then you could have the option to use the shared styles or create your own personal styles.

#33

Repertoire Help / Re: REQ: render any bracketed ...

Last post by arlo - June 14, 2026, 08:38:56 PM

One in particular that I am missing is the {soc}{eoc} construct used to embrace, and thus explicitly identify, choruses. I do have an app where choruses are rendered with an indent and a vertical bar in the left margin. This helps make the different sections of the song stand out without wasting vertical space for labels. One could use colours, but I am not comfortable with colouring text unless the colours are relative to content tags and can be chosen in user-preferences.

In the new app version 2026-06-12 released today, you can define text styles on the Repertoire > Text Styles page, then apply those styles when editing lyrics. If you later update the styles, the songs where you applied them will update automatically.

You can also map BandHelper styles to ChordPro verse, chorus, bridge and comment directives, and they will be converted when importing or exporting ChordPro files (ChordPro export is also new). More info is here:

https://www.bandhelper.com/tutorials/adding_lyrics.html#styles

#34

Repertoire Help / Re: Coloring some words automa...

Last post by arlo - June 14, 2026, 08:25:51 PM

In the new app version 2026-06-12 released today, the Headings Fade setting is a Headings Color setting.

You can also define styles and then apply them from the Styles button when editing lyrics. More info is here:

https://www.bandhelper.com/tutorials/adding_lyrics.html#styles

#35

Repertoire Help / Re: {Comment: Text} Chordpro

Last post by arlo - June 14, 2026, 08:25:10 PM

In the new app version 2026-06-12 released today, the Headings Fade setting is a Headings Color setting.

Also, you can now define styles on the Repertoire > Text Styles page, and set Map to ChordPro Style to Comments for one of the style; then that style will be applied when importing a ChordPro file that contains a {Comment} directive. Similarly, you can define styles for ChordPro verse, chorus and bridge directives.

#36

Repertoire Help / Re: Feature want: Headline Col...

Last post by arlo - June 14, 2026, 08:22:44 PM

In the new app version 2026-06-12 released today, the Headings Fade setting is a Headings Color setting.

#37

Other Help / Re: Shows grouped user fields

Last post by arlo - June 12, 2026, 09:19:44 AM

If you're using a song with multiple bands, you can enter it once, then copy it to another database with the copy button on the song edit page.

If you migrate to BandHelper, the structure and terminology are a little different. You can have multiple projects in one account, and then you can assign songs to multiple projects. In that case, you don't have separate copies of a song that you have to maintain separately. More info is here:

https://www.bandhelper.com/tutorials/projects.html

#38

Other Help / Re: Shows grouped user fields

Last post by HS-1 - June 11, 2026, 10:20:21 PM

I just want a database with all the songs. One level below that, several bands. And one level below that again, the shows for each band.

Database (with all songs) -> Band 1 -> Show 1
                                                          -> Show 2
                                                          -> ...
                                        -> Band 2 -> Show 1
                                                        -> Show 2
                                                        -> ...

Because:
With one database per band, I always have to enter the same songs multiple times.

#39

Other Help / Re: Shows grouped user fields

Last post by arlo - June 11, 2026, 08:23:44 AM

Custom fields are only for songs, not for shows.

What specifically are you trying to accomplish?

#40

Other Help / Shows grouped user fields

Last post by HS-1 - June 11, 2026, 12:51:16 AM

Hi,
Can I also group the shows into user fields, like when I enter a date?
When I create a user field in the database, it does not appear in the show menu.

Thx