Display of lines with just chords, no lyrics

MarkGuitar

This is not really specifically a V4 issue as it was the same in V3 but I thought I would raise it here in the hope it can be considered for a future V4 release.

The layout of lines in lyric text that are chords only, with no actual lyrics, don’t display well. In the app I have previously used for my charts, the display of lines of chord changes displayed pretty well, but ST is not so good.
For example, the intro to a song with just music, no words, could be displayed in the previous app like this;

Whereas the same thing in ST looks like this;

Interestingly, the text from the above ST display looks better in editor than it does in the main display. The editor looks like this;

Not perfect but a lot neater than the main display version.

I am using fixed font, as suggested previously by @peter

I would love to be able to improve this if anyone has any ideas. If not, then can @peter say if this is something he would be prepared to look at in ST4 sometime. If so I would be happy to propose some ideas.

This would make charts so much more useful as I could chart out chord changes for intros, solos, breaks, outros etc, which currently is a real struggle.

AnthonyB

For that scenario, I use the ` character at the start of the line, and then space out the chords and any cues or notes so that it renders acceptably. We also drop the square brackets so it doesn't try to render them as chords and place them above the line. Not perfect, but it works.

So this:

Renders as this:

As I've previously raised in related threads, I'd love to see the ability to use multiple fonts, tags to define a font, and then you could use fixed width fonts for tabs/chords type lines, while using other fonts for lyrics.