I've posted my last song on Mudcat

Subject: RE: I've posted my last song on Mudcat
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Apr 01 - 11:13 AM

ALL THESE have been covered in the FAQ thread. As I see it we have two choices here. Learn to use the tools we have or let someone else use them... and I too would gladly offer to format things e-mailed to me. I have spent the last week getting a batch ready to post to clear up some older confusing threads, in fact, and I also post about three pieces each week from the songsheets I am creating for our church services or our jam group. I can do it in my sleep.

My e-mail clicky is all over this Forum too, as well as below, so feel free anyone. People help ME a lot because I am on a real bad sucky computer, so this is something I can do easily and am glad to do to contribute here.

But also please at least read the FAQ thread. It IS a lot to absorb all at once but ALL of us can learn one trick at a time.

I also have a Word template document that sits on my desktop with HTML templates to do what is described here. E-mail me if you want me to e-mail it to you as an attachment.

(Click HERE to e-mail me. SUBJECT LINE: HTML TEMPLATE or PLEASE POST FOR ME)

~S~

Here is the rest of what my templates can do, all simply pasted in from it. (No significance to the things these clickies will take you to-- just samples):

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If you're new around here, have you checked out THIS yet?

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Another DT treasure: TYPE SONG TITLE HERE

CLICK HERE

4 Sacred Harp singings in 4 weeks

This should be bold (as should we all)

This should be italics and I really mean it!

This should be big print

And this should be small print

Some people like to use strikeout

   preformatted text is nice for lyrics with chords  

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Subject: RE: I've posted my last song on Mudcat
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 11 Apr 01 - 10:50 AM

Amos, what a great idea! Never thought of it.

Clinton, I agree that it's pretty primitive to have to do all the HTML on posts. I do know HTML, but it's a gigantic pain, and a skill that will be totally obsolete before too long, and not really worth knowing. (And then there's the issue that the songs I post never make it to the database anyway . . .)

Subject: RE: I've posted my last song on Mudcat
From: Amos
Date: 11 Apr 01 - 10:36 AM

Both Netscape Composer and Word can convert to HTML automatically. You type, as in a word processor, and save to the desktop or someplace as (filename.html). Open it in a browser (IE or NS), view source and select and copy the actual content, now HTML formatted. Don't copy the page head stuff -- just from the first line you typed tothe end of your last line.

Then go over to the Mudcat thread of interest and hit Paste. Bingo -- fully formatted HTML in a thread without typing any containers or other html commands.

A

Subject: RE: I've posted my last song on Mudcat
From: Jeri
Date: 11 Apr 01 - 10:32 AM

What Jon said. It's a pain to type line breaks in, but not a very big one. I type in <br> once and copy it, then whenever I want one, just type Ctrl/V. I don't mind helping you out if you find it a major aggravation to type the line breaks in.

Charlie, you type in <b>to make text bold, then </b> wherever you want the boldness to stop.

Subject: RE: I've posted my last song on Mudcat
From: MMario
Date: 11 Apr 01 - 10:29 AM

just like line breaks but b instead of br before the part you want bolded and then /b after...

Subject: RE: I've posted my last song on Mudcat
From: UB Ed
Date: 11 Apr 01 - 10:28 AM

It does! Thanks Scabby!

Subject: Lyr Add: ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER (Bob Dylan)
From: UB Ed
Date: 11 Apr 01 - 10:27 AM

Let's see if it works:ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER
(Bob Dylan)

Am G F G Am (play it forever)

There must be some kind of way out of here
Said the joker to the thief
There's too much confusion
I can't get no relief
Businessmen they drink my wine
Plowmen dig my earth
None of them along the line Know what any of it is worth

No reason to get excited
The thief he kindly spoke
There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I we've been through that
And this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now
he hour is getting late

All along the watchtower
Princes kept the view
While all the women came and went
Barefoot servants too
Outside in the distance
A wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching
The wind began to howl

Subject: RE: I've posted my last song on Mudcat
From: GUEST,Roll&Go-C
Date: 11 Apr 01 - 10:06 AM

The current system is irritating, but so is much word processing learning, and relearning. Hope you're not permanently bent out of shape.

Say how do I make one line BOLD, instead of the whole damn thing?

Subject: RE: I've posted my last song on Mudcat
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 11 Apr 01 - 10:03 AM

Clinton, if it is such a big deal to you, why not just post and let a JoeClone sort it out? I'm sure it wouldn't add that much of a burden to us.

Jon

Subject: RE: I've posted my last song on Mudcat
From: MMario
Date: 11 Apr 01 - 09:55 AM

I virtually never type lyrics for posting - it's all cut and paste...

Subject: RE: I've posted my last song on Mudcat
From: Mrrzy
Date: 11 Apr 01 - 09:52 AM

It's really easy to take text and turn it into HTML with a couple of global search&replaces. In fact, Clinton Hammond, since I like you and your music so much, why don't you email me the files and I'll do the turning into HTML for you. My emails on the Resources. Don't give us up just because our technology ain't what it otta be... please?

Subject: RE: I've posted my last song on Mudcat
From: GUEST,SD again
Date: 11 Apr 01 - 09:24 AM

Ha! knew it would eat the BR inside the angle brackets...

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SD, I have fixed it. To do what you tried, you need to type &lt;br&gt; JoeClone.

Subject: RE: I've posted my last song on Mudcat
From: GUEST,SCabby Doug at work
Date: 11 Apr 01 - 09:24 AM

In Microsoft word , if you search for ^p (that's the caret symbol like the circumflex accent, then a p), you could search and replace it with the left chevron, "b", then the right chevron or "<BR>". That should do it...

If you don't have Word, ummm...

Subject: RE: I've posted my last song on Mudcat
From: GUEST,Matt_R
Date: 11 Apr 01 - 08:49 AM

Same here, Willie. I can do html on non-formatted in a matter of minutes. And believe me, I've done some LONG songs before.

Subject: RE: I've posted my last song on Mudcat
From: UB Ed
Date: 11 Apr 01 - 08:34 AM

I hear ya, Clint.

As I was crusing over the last couple weeks, I came across an excellent suggestion about how WORD documents can be tweaked to find & replace the end paragraph tab with the br. I thought I was smart enough to remember, but was wrong.

Did anybody else see it, and if so, can we repeat it here?

Subject: RE: I've posted my last song on Mudcat
From: Willie-O
Date: 11 Apr 01 - 08:18 AM

Me, I'm unable to type anything anywhere without adding br and p tabs now...

Willie-O

Subject: RE: I've posted my last song on Mudcat
From: gnu
Date: 11 Apr 01 - 07:27 AM

Clinton... did you get a GBS CD stuck on replay or something ?

Subject: RE: I've posted my last song on Mudcat
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Apr 01 - 05:07 AM

None of my business really. I'm only a guest myself. But if someone complains, in anger and frustration, I just hope someone takes it seriously.

There is never JUST ONE unhappy customer.

BS

Subject: RE: I've posted my last song on Mudcat
From: Joan from Wigan
Date: 11 Apr 01 - 04:48 AM

Clinton, I have been a grateful recipient of your words and chords in the past. As a poster of songs, I can also understand your frustration. I feel irked at having to type out something I have already typed out for my personal song database, and often wish I could just cut-and-paste. However, it's not possible with the current Mudcat software, so I grit my teeth and plough on regardless.

I look at it this way: I have gratefully received, from you and others, and from the DT, the words and chords of songs I would otherwise not have been able to find. And I know others too are extremely grateful for this site and for the many helpful people who contribute to it, without whom it would be useless.

I am thankful enough to want to give something back. And if that involves a little bit of frustration in re-typing and adding line-breaks, then so be it.

I hope this is just a mood-swing you're going through, and not a permanent thing, because you've added lots of quality to this site, and I'd hate you to feel so cheesed off that you can no longer contribute as fully as you have done so far. You may feel differently in a day or two, or a week or two, so please don't feel that just because you've said this publicly that you can't change your mind - you can if you want to!

Joan

Subject: RE: I've posted my last song on Mudcat
From: wdyat12
Date: 11 Apr 01 - 04:26 AM

ClintonHammond,

Not quite sure what this is all about yet, but you sound pretty mad.

wdyat12

Subject: RE: I've posted my last song on Mudcat
From: GUEST,Ewan McVicar
Date: 11 Apr 01 - 02:20 AM

Well, there we are. Words of comfort fail me.

Subject: I've posted my last song on Mudcat
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 11 Apr 01 - 02:12 AM

This is such a pain in the ass, having to add html codes to posts... and for NO GOOD REASON AT ALL!!! Any MB worth it's salt would pre-format! So from here on in, no more song posts from me! Ya want lyrics from me, I'll emaile 'em to ya, but Mudcat can get stuffed!!!