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Originally Posted by theducks
Shows you how much I know about Music publishing  |
Exact same thoughts I had. I was having a tough time knowing exactly what waschtl meant, and a quick search of "guitar tabs" in Google Images showed images of pages full of notes + lyrics. I was instantly going to link the SVG musical notes topic/discussion a while back.
That "individual images" solution in Post #2 sounded absolutely dreadful though...
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Originally Posted by cybmole
another approach is to go to ultimate guitar tabs, choose a chords arrangement, chosoe print version, inspect html source in browser . e.g. I see this , but I don't get how those spans are preserving the alignments :
view-source: http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/a/ar...espect_crd.htm |
The entire thing is wrapped in a <pre></pre>:
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_pre.asp
This means that the text appears in a fixed-width font, and all of the odd spacing they placed in the code stays exactly the same.
If the device becomes too narrow, and/or the font size becomes too large, the text will go off the edge of the screen though. You may be able to use this CSS to help the <pre> text wrap:
Code:
pre{
white-space: pre-wrap;
}
This <pre> "solution" does not keep the notes/words together though. Once the lines start wrapping, everything breaks apart and becomes impossible to read. You lose track of which note goes with which word.
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Originally Posted by waschtl
[...] there's always one line with chords above one line with text, then an empty line and starting over. So what I need is to align the line of chords to the exact word or even letters of the word in the next line.
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Seems like someone on Stack Exchange asked this same exact question as your initial post:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...ove-the-lyrics
Don't know how well this would work on actual devices (especially if the users can fiddle around with line-heights). But it may help you get started on the right track.
Are you just trying to create this MOBI copy for yourself? Or are you planning on distributing this anywhere?
I fear that this sort of book may just be one of those subsets that are not well-suited for EPUB/MOBI, and would be better suited as PDF/physical books. Although maybe I am wrong. Maybe there are some fantastic music EPUBs out there.