Ken,
Interesting! I'm surprised, because I get the same formatting problems with both IE7 and Firefox. Are you sure you are looking at the display from View Songbook, and not just clicking on individual songs?
Tom
1 2008-08-01 20:52:21
Re: Formatting problems with "view/print songbook" (17 replies, posted in About Chordie)
2 2008-08-01 18:47:45
Re: Formatting problems with "view/print songbook" (17 replies, posted in About Chordie)
From Admin: "I have not noticed this problem. Could you please give me a link to where it occurs."
For the purpose of providing an example, I have made my own songbook public - it's called "Tom's Uke Songbook" in "Uke Collections" :-
http://www.chordie.com/publicbooks.php? … ngid=98004
I have sorted it on artist rather than song title, as there are more error examples to look at (sorted on song title, the whole of the songbook is italicised after the first chorus of the 2nd song!). Sorted on artist, this only happens after the 10th song - see below.
If you click "view songbook" you can see the following examples of formatting errors, which don't occur when the songs are viewed individually:-
1st song (Night They Drove Old Dixie Down): the 1st line of the 2nd verse is italicised.
2nd song (Waltzing Matilda): the whole of the song after the 1st verse is italicised.
3rd song(The Rose): OK (no chorus in this song!).
4th song (Knocking On Heaven's Door): 1st line of the 2nd verse is italicised.
5th song (Bad Moon Rising): 1st line of 2nd verse is italicised.
6th song (Down On The Corner): first 2 lines of 2nd verse are italicised.
7th song (I'm Just A Country Boy): 1st line of 2nd verse is italicised.
8th song (Peaceful Easy Feeling): 2 lines of 2nd verse italicised.
9th song (Green Fields of France): 7 lines after 1st chorus italicised.
10th song (And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda): Everything from 2nd verse to end of songbook is italicised!
Hope that provides enough examples.
When View Songbook is used in conjunction with File/Save As... in IE7 (or File/Save Page As... in Firefox), it *potentially* provides a very useful means of creating a local back-up of your work in one convenient file, on your own PC, safe from any disasters which might happen on-line in the future. But as things stand at the moment, it's a bit of a mess...
Tom
3 2008-07-26 22:01:33
Re: Chord grids won't print (10 replies, posted in About Chordie)
Hi topdown,
Well I'll be...!!! Firefox prints the chord grids perfectly to my normal printer (no change of driver needed)!!
So it's "Goodbye IE7", and "Hello Firefox"!!!
Thanks so much,
Tom
4 2008-07-26 21:17:59
Re: Chord grids won't print (10 replies, posted in About Chordie)
Thanks for that, Roger, it's pretty much what I ended up doing.
The only thing I would quibble with is your #5 - surely you should select the make and model of the *alternative* printer driver you want to use? Or you could right-click an existing (spare) printer in the "Printers_and_Faxes" window and select Properties/Advanced tab/New_Driver... This brings up the "Add_Printer_Driver_Wizard" to allow you to change the driver by selecting one of XP's built-in ones - or you could click "Have Disk.." and browse for the location of a downloaded driver.
Anyhow, like I say, I didn't have any joy ultimately with my attempts. Out of interest, which driver did you use to print the chord grids?
Tom
5 2008-07-26 18:14:32
Re: Chord grids won't print (10 replies, posted in About Chordie)
Hi Roger,
Please ignore my previous post. I tried the HP-recommended alternative driver for my printer (the Deskjet 3420), which I had to download as it wasn't in XP's list of drivers(!), ...but that didn't print the chord grids either! And other XP drivers I tried didn't even start the printer.
So it looks like I am going to have to live without the niceity of chord diagrams on my song prints. Ah well!
Cheers,
Tom
6 2008-07-25 22:07:36
Re: Chord grids won't print (10 replies, posted in About Chordie)
Hi Roger,
Thanks for the reply. Could you spell out exactly what you did, and which XP driver you used?
Thanks,
Tom
7 2008-07-25 19:13:41
Topic: Formatting problems with "view/print songbook" (17 replies, posted in About Chordie)
Hi,
Having recently read in the "Using (chordie)song books off line?" topic of the "view/print songbook" facility, I gave it a go. It's potentially *very* useful, but doesn't seem to format correctly. It doesn't seem to deal with the {soc} {eoc} chorus delimiters properly, so that the italicised text of the chorus sometimes continues into the next verse. The songs display and print correctly individually.
Have other people had this problem?
Tom
8 2008-07-25 18:39:14
Topic: Chord grids won't print (10 replies, posted in About Chordie)
Hi,
I cannot get the chord grids to show on my song printouts, even though they appear on the Print Preview.
I use IE7 with XP SP2 (kept updated), and have a HP PSC 1215 all-in-one printer.
I thought at first it was because I didn't have "Print background colors and images" checked in Internet Options/Advanced, but I still have the problem.
An on-line check of my printer driver from the HP website reported no problems - it is the latest version and seems OK.
I have also run various PC/registry-cleaning software packages, but to no avail - I still can't get the chord grids to print.
I know other people have had this problem. If anyone knows how to fix it, I would be very grateful.
Thanks,
Tom
9 2007-07-15 18:53:15
Re: Beatles (7 replies, posted in About Chordie)
If you watch the Beatle's Hey Jude video on YouTube, you'll hear that its sung in F, not F#.
Chordie + YouTube is the perfect combination!
Tom
10 2007-07-15 11:12:39
Topic: Occasional Chord Alignment Glitch when Editing (1 replies, posted in About Chordie)
Hi,
Firstly, congtratulations on a superb resource, I LOVE it!
But one problem I have is an occasional misaligned chord when editing my songbook.
For example (from the Night They Drove Old Dixie Down) – if I type in…
[Am] And like my brother a[C]bove me, [F] who took a [Am]rebel [Dm]stand.
The second Am should appear above the ‘r’ of rebel, but instead it appears to the left of the word above a newly-created space of about 5 blanks (very annoying!). Strangely, there is no alignment problem if the [Am] is changed to [A], or if the [Dm] is removed, or if the line is truncated to end with ‘rebel’.
Similar alignment glitches have occurred elsewhere when editing songs. What’s going on? (I am using IE7 with the latest updates of XP).
Tom