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Thread #6842   Message #40352
Posted By: Joe Offer
04-Oct-98 - 09:57 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Some new(?) Scottish songs For DT
Subject: RE: LYR ADD:Some New? Scottish Songs For DT
Hi, John - well, it took me about half an hour to edit your post. Take a lesson from the Sorcerer's Apprentice - don't use HTML commands that you don't understand. (grin)
They were good songs, though, so I didn't mind editing them. A few of pointers for posting lyrics might be in order:
1. Use header tags and large fonts very sparingly (h1, h2, h3, etc.) Using the <big> or <strong> commands should be enough to give emphasis to a title. The <small> command is quite nice for comments. Be sure to close off those commands with a slash at the end of the text you want emphasized, as in </small>.
2. Use line breaks <br> at the end of each line of lyrics, and double line breaks <br><br> at the end of a paragraph or verse. Try not to use the paragraph <p> command - people who copy the lyrics you’ve posted into word processors have trouble with HTML paragraph commands because many word processors read them as single line breaks and the verses get all mashed together.
3. If you're pasting text from a word processor into Mudcat, it's probably better to use single-spaced text. It's hard to predict how double-spaced text will appear in Mudcat. If you want to have double-spaced text in a Mudcat message, use double line breaks <br><br>, but do it sparingly. You can't get much double-spaced text on a laptop monitor, and some of your fellow Mudcatteers will hate you for filling up their laptop monitors with open space.
But, John, I know your heart was in the right place, so don't worry about it.
-Joe Offer-

You asked about how to tell if there's a tune for songs in the personal computer edition of the database - in the lists of songs that you pull up on searches, the songs that have tunes are marked with an asterisk.