The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #24035 Message #271165
Posted By: Joe Offer
03-Aug-00 - 03:10 PM
Thread Name: BS: Spare me eyes - give us a break!
Subject: How to post lyrics
Mbo, Using <enter> twice works find between paragraphs when you're posting normal text, but PLEASE don't use it when posting lyrics. When posting lyrics, use one <br> line break in every single line, even in the blank lines between stanzas. If you do it any other way, it's very difficult to find the breaks between stanzas when we're harvesting lyrics. Also when you're posting lyrics, please try to put ADD and the song title in the "Subject" box of your message (no need to start a new thread, if the thread title is at all relevant and is not a "BS" thread). The song title should be in all caps above the lyrics, followed by a line with the songwriter's name in parentheses. It also helps if you put your initials AFTER the lyrics, and include any background information you have.
Hitting "enter" twice or the <p> paragraph mark will make a double space show up in most browsers. However, that double space usually disappears when you copy-and-paste lyrics into a word processor. That's why I'd like everybody to use <br> line breaks all the time. Thanks. -Joe Offer-