Technical information

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing
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If you have the Lyrics window option “Auto-open lyrics window for songs with lyrics” selected, and a MIDI file (or
.KAR) containing lyrics is opened, the lyrics window will open to show the lyrics.
The popular Karaoke file format (.KAR) can be opened directly into Band-in-a-Box just like MIDI files. Chord
symbols are displayed (Band-in-a-Box intelligently analyzes the chords of the song), as well as the lyrics from the
Karaoke files.
Printing
Print Options
Pressing the printer button launches the Print Options dialog box. Print options include title, bar
numbers, composer, style, and copyright.
Include Chords
If selected, this will include the chords of the song on the lead sheet. Remember that you can set the height that the
chords will appear in a different dialog box (the Options Dialog box).
Include Notes
If you want only a chord lead sheet with no Notes, then turn this off. Otherwise it should be ON.
Bar #s (new Part)
If set to YES, this will include a bar # written at every part marker, as well as the letter of the part marker. So bar 1
might be written as 1a. There is no option to print out every bar number at this time.
Staff Lines
Set to off (uncheck) to print a “chords only” fake sheet with chord symbols and bar lines but no staff lines or
notation.
Lyrics
Lyrics can either be printed above the chords, below the staff, separately at the end (on a separate page), or not
printed at all. Normally lyrics are printed below the staff.