Topic: tabs with unreadable formatting when printing...
I have several tabs in my songbooks that are readable on chordie but become jumbled (usually midway through the song) when you print them. Is this something I can fix?
- James McCormick
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Re: tabs with unreadable formatting when printing...
Hi samgerdt & welcome to chordie and chordie's forum!
Yes - you can probably fix the formatting problem yourself. Here is how:
In your songbook open the song using the 'edit' button at the end of song's listing.
Now, in the upper window you will see the song in it's 'raw' form. Chances are there are some goofy bits in there somewhere that are causing it to be rendered strangely when it prints.
If you can't seem to find anything obvious, post a link to the song here in this thread. Maybe some of us could spot the bugs in the song.
Hope this helps, James
"That darn Pythagorean Comma thing keeps messing me up!"
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_comma[/url]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_comma[/url]
Re: tabs with unreadable formatting when printing...
it took a while but i found all of them. for most it was just a matter of moving the closing {eot} tag up a few lines (excluding the unnecessary footer content), but for some i had to reformat much of the song. i was surprised when almost every tab file required at least a minor change to print correctly. files formatted for chords rendered fine. it would be nice if the admins here would go ahead and fix this problem.
Re: tabs with unreadable formatting when printing...
By the way - thanks for your willingness to help me out.
- James McCormick
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Re: tabs with unreadable formatting when printing...
Hi again samgerdt -
I'm glad you were able to solve the puzzle, zap the bugs, and get the file to print. Most song files (both chords & tabs) have lots of 'chaff' when you open them up with chordie's edit tool. My preference is to get rid of all the extraneous stuff when I edit a song.
I have observed that there is a great deal of variation in the manner in which tabs are created. Some tabbers follow generally agreed upon formats but many seem to have there own personal versions of how a tab file should be made.
Not being a programming whiz, I wouldn't know how to script a routine to automatically handle all the quirky things found in many tabs. Perhaps somebody else has the know-how for this?
Samgerdt, once you have 'fixed' a song, please use chordie's "Improve this song" utility to help correct the song in chordie's index. Other users will appreciate your efforts. James
"That darn Pythagorean Comma thing keeps messing me up!"
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_comma[/url]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_comma[/url]
Re: tabs with unreadable formatting when printing...
If you find problems that seems to be consistent over multiple songs, please send an email to admin@chordie.com. If I have 2-3 songs with the same problem, I am most likely able to fix it.