Help: Posting song lyrics

Subject: RE: Help: Posting song lyrics
From: jon a
Date: 09 Sep 99 - 06:50 PM

Thanks Joe, I will try and learn what I,m doing as soon as I have time.

Jon

Subject: RE: Help: Posting song lyrics
From: radriano
Date: 08 Sep 99 - 05:18 PM

Joe, you must be psychic cause that is exactly what I did.

I have all my song collections entered in Microsoft Word so the search and replace method is just what I needed to make posting song lyrics a cinch.

Regards, Joe, and thanks a bunch for all your help!

Subject: RE: Help: Posting song lyrics
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Sep 99 - 04:02 PM

Looks perfect to me, Radriano. Now, try typing lyrics in a word processor, and using the "replace" function to substitute carriage returns for a carriage return PLUS a <br> line break. It takes a while to get the hang of it, but it makes things a lot easier.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Help: Posting song lyrics
From: radriano
Date: 08 Sep 99 - 01:50 PM

Please bear with me, everyone, but here's another method of lyric posting I'd like to test out. Well, here goes nothing.

Row On
Words from ship's log, Three Brothers 1846
Set to music by Tim Laycock, England

Click for the rest of the lyrics

Subject: RE: Help: Posting song lyrics
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Sep 99 - 09:29 PM

Hi, Carl - I'm wondering if something's gone wrong with the system, because it seems like we've been getting a lot of misplaced song requests today. This thread is about the techniques of posting song lyrics.
Sometimes, we get a little jumpy when people post requests where they don't seem to belong, but I'm beginning to think that we "regulars" have forgotten how it feels to be new around here. Click here to get to the thread on the song you wanted. If you have any more questions, please try to put them in a thread with an appropriate title. Hope that helps.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Help: Posting song lyrics
From: Carl Anderson
Date: 07 Sep 99 - 09:15 PM

Does anybody know the lyrics to lets pretend.( lets pretend the clouds are islands in the sky) and so on. Also the artist s anme as well. Thanks Carl Anderson Richmond B.C. Can.

Subject: RE: Help: Posting song lyrics
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Sep 99 - 06:48 PM

Hi, Jon - I've been maintaining the HTML Stuff (click here) thread as a guide to posting messages and lyrics and such. It has all sorts of good stuff for you, and links to other ideas. We usually don't edit out messages that are in our regular threads, but I do delete HTML practice messages after a while, so that thread should remaing a good reference, without getting too cluttered up with other stuff. There's a link to it on our links page. You'll find links to our links page and all sorts of other stuff at the top of the Forum Menu and many other pages at the 'Cat.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Help: Posting song lyrics
From: jon a
Date: 07 Sep 99 - 06:34 PM

Not that I have anything to post at present,
but could we please have a thread on how to do these things? thanks Jon

Subject: RE: Help: Posting song lyrics
From: MMario
Date: 07 Sep 99 - 04:40 PM

thanks joe! I was about to say the same thing to him.

Subject: RE: Help: Posting song lyrics
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Sep 99 - 04:33 PM

Radriano - please post the tune in the Row On (click) thread. If you need help learning how to post tunes, give a holler.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Help: Posting song lyrics
From: unclenort
Date: 07 Sep 99 - 04:26 PM

radriano,great thread
i needed it.
MMario,that had to be the perfect tip.you just help create a monster
he
he
he:)
thank you both!

Subject: RE: Help: Posting song lyrics
From: radriano
Date: 07 Sep 99 - 04:11 PM

Dear MMario:

I do have Gale Huntington's book at home.
I'll bring it with me tomorrow and post the melody.

Regards,
radriano

Subject: Line Breaks for lyrics posting
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Sep 99 - 03:41 PM

Looks like you've got the trick, Radriano - line breaks look like this:

<br>

Put one at the end of each line you type, and you're cookin' with gas.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Help: Posting song lyrics
From: MMario
Date: 07 Sep 99 - 03:15 PM

I like that! Any chance of posting the tune?

Subject: RE: Help: Posting song lyrics
From: radriano
Date: 07 Sep 99 - 02:09 PM

Row On
Words from ship's log, Three Brothers 1846
Set to music by Tim Laycock, England

Clouds are upon the summer sky
There's thunder in the wind
Pull on, pull on and homeward hie
Nor give one look behind

Click for the rest of the lyrics

Subject: RE: Help: Posting song lyrics
From: MMario
Date: 07 Sep 99 - 12:51 PM

The format of the forum requires that lines end with the HTML code for a line break.

For a much better explanation of this then I can give, HTML in the filter on the main forum page, set the date to 90 days and refresh. Check out the threads. Lots of stuff about line breaks, blue clickie things etc...

Subject: Help: Posting song lyrics
From: radriano
Date: 07 Sep 99 - 12:30 PM

Everytime I post a song the format gets screwed up. Can anyone help me get this right?

If anyone prefers, they can reach me at:

[e-mail]

Thanks