I worked pretty hard to type up instructions on how to use search-and-replace to put line breatks in lyrics. It's in the FAQ - under the message titled Posting Lyrics (click). If you have a word processor, it's a trick you should learn, and it really isn't very hard. It's something you can use in a lot of situations, not just at Mudcat. If you had spent your time learning how to do it instead of typing your gripes in this thread, you'd know how to do it by now.

But yeah, Max is well aware that people would prefer to have automatic line breaks. He had it working pretty well in the experimental version of Mudcat, and I used it for about three months - and then it crashed. It isn't hard to do - you just click a box on ColdFusion (the basic program that runs Mudcat), and then ColdFusion automatically inserts line breaks. Unfortunately, it creates some problems that cause us headaches. We could have the line breaks, but then we'd have problems with some clickable links and other things. If we didn't allow HTML in forum messages, it would be very easy to have the automatic line breaks - but most people like the HTML once they learn a little bit of it.

But rest assured that the improvement is in the works, and should be perfected any time now. I 've been monitoring all the suggestion threads and I gave Max a long list of things people wanted - he was able to implement almost every one of them in the experimental Mudcat, but there have some bugs.

You piss me off, Clinton. Max works hard, and he works without pay. The least you could do to show a little gratitude is type a few line breaks.

I will admit that adding line breaks by search-and-replace is difficult or impossible for people who use WEBTV. For people who use a computer, it's very simple. If you have a word processor, you ought to learn how to do search-and-replace. It's a simple, essential skill in word processing.

-Joe Offer-