Notice! Trick to entering lyrics!

Subject: Notice! Trick to entering lyrics!
From:
Date: 01 Mar 97 - 08:53 PM

Some times people are kind enough to type in entire sets of lyrics for songs, but they end up in run-on sentences.. If you WANT to do it in 'verse' form, you need to hit 2 'carriage returns' between lines..like this:

"Jimmy cracked corn

And I dont care"

etc....it leaves a blank line, but this MAY be better than 'Jimmy cracked corn and I dont care, my master's gone away. When he would ride in the afternoon, I'd follow after with a hickory broom"

It's your choice...just remember *2* returns are required to start a new line at the

left margin...

Subject: RE: Notice! Trick to entering lyrics!
From:
Date: 02 Mar 97 - 11:39 PM

You can also make them look like this:

Jimmy cracked corn
And I don't care

The trick is that this is an HTML page. So you can make it break lines without having to double-space them, by putting in the HTML line break sign. That's a left angle (<) followed by BR followed by a right angle (>), thus: <BR>

You put one at the end of each line, where you want the breaks. It's a fiddling thing to do, but it isn't hard.

Subject: RE: Notice! Trick to entering lyrics!
From: ggolgart
Date: 03 Mar 97 - 12:15 AM

Is it possible to type the words offline?

Save to file and then upload to this area.

On long songs I have found the connection to drop because of "percieved inactivity."

Subject: RE: Notice! Trick to entering lyrics!
From:
Date: 03 Mar 97 - 12:35 AM

Great to learn the break trick....now if it was just included in a list of instructions somewhere so that this message does not just disappear--next week, someone will need to know it again..

as to the offline thing...sure..you can type lyrics in your word processer and cut & paste them in..(I think!!??)
testing to see if the break thing really works...

Subject: RE: Notice! Trick to entering lyrics!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Mar 97 - 02:22 AM

Cut-and-paste works just fine, except that you don't need the extra line feeds between lines to make it come out right. If you double-enter after each line on a cut-and-paste job, you'll end up with a double-spaced song. Somebody suggested "uploading" to this area - I don't think that's possible. -Joe-

Subject: RE: Notice! Trick to entering lyrics!
From: Rodney Rawlings
Date: 03 Mar 97 - 07:47 PM

I have a text-only browswer (Lynx), and cannot enter double returns (they have no effect); in fact I can't even do single ones. So I use slashes (spacedË).

Subject: RE: Notice! Trick to entering lyrics!
From:
Date: 03 Mar 97 - 08:44 PM

RGFN.EPCC.EDU uses the LYNX browser....but also allows the use of TWINSOCK and NETSCAPE.....email me if interested.

Subject: RE: Notice! Trick to entering lyrics!
From:
Date: 26 Mar 97 - 11:50 AM

bringing this to the top