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Turtle91 · 08-10-2015, 08:52 AM

I've been involved in Music for a couple decades...although I have never looked at guitar music, just woodwinds...I should have realized they would use the same note/chord designations...

I don't know what source the OP's using. If they have a clean text of lyrics then it is very simple to click on where you want the chord and insert like so:

D-What you want baby,C+ I got it

Then highlight the chord and use a built-in function for putting the tags around the chord. Both Sigil and Calibre Editor have buttons for that - I assume most software packages would.

...I just thought of something... Sigil has a function called "Clips". You can create a button to automatically insert text at the cursor position. It would take about 5 minutes to create a "Clip" of every chord - and a clip of each "extra optional stuff" - that already includes the tag (e.g. Name:"A#" Text:"A#"). Then you just click on the insert point, click on the appropriate button...done! I have the Clips bar located at the top of the screen - plenty of room for all those notes. I made the following in about 1.5 minutes:

Hey KevinH....what do you think of the option to have multiple Clips bars...so you can view/hide the bar needed for specific projects?

08-10-2015, 08:52 AM	#17
Turtle91 A Hairy Wizard Posts: 3,361 Karma: 20212223 Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Charleston, SC today Device: iPhone 15/11/X/6/iPad 1,2,Air & Air Pro/Surface Pro/Kindle PW & Fire	I've been involved in Music for a couple decades...although I have never looked at guitar music, just woodwinds...I should have realized they would use the same note/chord designations... I don't know what source the OP's using. If they have a clean text of lyrics then it is very simple to click on where you want the chord and insert like so: <p>D-What you want baby,C+ I got it</p> Then highlight the chord and use a built-in function for putting the tags around the chord. Both Sigil and Calibre Editor have buttons for that - I assume most software packages would. ...I just thought of something... Sigil has a function called "Clips". You can create a button to automatically insert text at the cursor position. It would take about 5 minutes to create a "Clip" of every chord - and a clip of each "extra optional stuff" - that already includes the <sup> tag (e.g. Name:"A#" Text:"<sup>A#</sup>"). Then you just click on the insert point, click on the appropriate button...done! I have the Clips bar located at the top of the screen - plenty of room for all those notes. I made the following in about 1.5 minutes: Hey KevinH....what do you think of the option to have multiple Clips bars...so you can view/hide the bar needed for specific projects? Last edited by Turtle91; 08-10-2015 at 08:59 AM.