You can always post lyrics HERE using a fixed pitch font (say Courier) and place the lyrics above the matching syllables - and it works just fine if you know the HTML lingo and use it properly. The problems occur down the track if someone cuts and pastes to another application and uses a different font. Then the chords will be all over the place like a dingo's breakfast.

The argument about Searches is an interesting one and an issue that I don't profess to know too well. However if I was using Google to find the lyrics to 'The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck' I might type 'picking his nose like mad'. If I don't put this phrase in inverted commas then I believe that Google would find the individual words even if they were preceded by square brackets. Include the parentheses and it probably won't work. I haven't tried.

I guess that the endowment of any standard involves compromise. I'll leave that decision to those Mudcat members who are likely to actually use it.

Regards, John