Technical information

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing
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Lyric Document Window
The Lyric Document window displays a full screen of fully formatted lyrics so you can easily copy and paste lyrics
to and from your favorite word processor. If you have the lyrics available you can quickly paste them into Band-in-
a-Box.
You may already have the lyrics to your song typed into a word processor, nicely formatted with font/color/bold
choices etc. Previously, you would need to retype them into Band-in-a-Box and would lose your formatting. Now
you can simply Copy/Paste them to/from your word processor. This allows you to quickly add lyrics to any Band-
in-a-Box song.
Big Lyrics (Karaoke) Window
The Big Lyrics window is great for sing along or Karaoke. It opens from the Lyrics menu, with the keystrokes
Ctrl+Shift+L, or with the [L] toolbar button.
Each word is highlighted as it plays, and the window can be customized by clicking on the [Options] button. Click
on any word in the Big Lyrics window to start the song playing from that point.
Lyric Window Options
Add chord symbols, customize your color scheme, choose a favorite font, and select a size in the Lyric Window
Options dialog. Chords can be displayed on a row above the lyrics on the Big Lyrics window
On the Big Lyrics window Options dialog, if you set “Show chord symbols above the lyrics,”
you then see the chords written on a separate line.
Separate chord colors are used for the Chords and Lyrics, allowing these elements to be visually separated.
You can also select the color for the chords in the options dialog.
When there are no lyrics for a few bars, the Big Lyrics window displays the chords in a line divided by bars so that
they are easy to read. When the lyrics resume, the chords are interleaved with the words as before.
With this option selected the Big Lyrics scroll a page at a time. When the lyric
cursor reaches the next-to-last line of the lyrics it will scroll to the top of the
page, allowing uninterrupted reading of lyrics.