How do I highlight or bold a line in OnSong?

How do I highlight or bold a line in OnSong?

Line formatting in OnSong lets you add some character to your lines in the song editor to apply basic formatting in your song viewer.  You can do this by adding special characters in front of the line.  The new Line Formatting Menu can do much of this for you.  To add line formatting, open the Song Editor and place a cursor on the line you want to effect.  Then locate the Quick Chord Bar that appears above the on-screen keyboard.  Tap on the "A" icon to open the Line Formatting Menu,  You can then set the font and highlight color of the text, or bold and italicize the line. 

This will add special characters to the front of the line. Of course you could also enter these manually. For instance: 
*This line will be bold
/This line will be italicized
!This line will be bold and italicized
&red:This text will be red
&#123456:This text will be a custom color using HTML color codes
>yellow:This line will be highlighted in yellow
You can also combine these line formatting commands for more complex scenarios.

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