Formatting
How can I manage the swatches in the color picker component?
The Color Picker in OnSong allows you to use default colors or create new ones. You can learn more about the color picker in our tutorial video. Accessing Colors The color picker fits the size of the menu but can contain more switches to choose ...
How do I make bracketed chords stay visible after editing?
You can go into OnSong > Utilities (gear icon) > Settings > Display Settings > Song Formatting > Chord Decoration > Select decoration wanted > Done.
How can I incorporate transpose and/or capo into Flow?
It will want to look something like this: V1, V2, C, (Repeat 2x), V1, Transpose: A, Capo: 2, V2
How can I get OnSong to display sharps and flats as I like?
The enharmonic preference of the key is determined by the key that you transpose the song into. For instance, if you pick the key of F#, then F# will be used. If you pick the key of Gb, then Gb will be used, etc. You can choose from more key options ...
My minor chords are appearing as lowercase, How can I change this back?
This may happen if you've enabled the Lowercase Minor Chords setting. To change this, open the Utilities Menu by tapping on the gear icon in the Menubar and then choose Settings. Navigate to Display Settings > Song Formatting > Chords and disable ...
Is there a way to change the margins on all my songs?
By default, OnSong places a 3/4" margin on all songs. This provides space for navigation zones as well as white space for your eye to look more like a traditional sheet of paper. You can adjust the margins to remove or add space around your text by ...
How do I put chord diagrams into my songs?
If you are using plain-text files for your songs that use Bracketed Chords or Chords Over Lyrics, OnSong can detect those chords and allow you to not only format those, but also display chord diagrams. This is not available for imported files such as ...
My Microsoft Word files that I'm importing aren't staying formatted the way I want. What's happening?
This is an issue between Word and iOS. It is up to iOS to render these files and it doesn't always read and view Microsoft Word files correctly. In other words, OnSong can't guarantee how it will look since we can only leave iOS to render the file.
How do I extract text from an imported file?
OnSong supports importing a variety of file formats, but works best with plain, text-based chord charts. However, if you've imported a word processing file such as Microsoft Word, Rich Text Formatting (RTF), or Adobe PDF, the file will display ...
Where did the chord transposition or formatting options go?
The Style Preferences menu has been changed recently to divide its functions into tabs. This allows us to provide more features to your while keeping OnSong easy to use. The Style Preferences Menu now has a row of tabs at the bottom that you tap to ...
How do I change the position of the Chords?
Thank you for using OnSong! You can do the following: Utilities Menu > Settings > Display settings > Chords > Chord Position > Above (to display chords above the lyrics) or Inline (to display the chords inline with the lyrics) > Done. Hope this ...
How can I have sharp notes appear as flat and vice versa?
OnSong uses the enharmonic preference of the key to determine if it appears as sharp or flat. There are generally two reasons why notes may appear using sharps or flats in ways that don't work with your musical preference. Declaring Keys OnSong ...
Microsoft Word files are not Aligned when I import them.
Thanks for using OnSong! When you import and view Microsoft Word files, they are being rendered by the built-in web viewer of iOS. The problem is likely caused by the way the Word file was authored. You may have used a font that is not directly ...
I can not extract the text from a .pages file, what should I do?
We are sorry you are having trouble! Apple has changed the way they save the pages documents into a proprietary format that we can not access. This change makes it impossible to convert the files inside OnSong. You will have to use Pages to ...
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 ...
Nashville Notation
Nashville notation is supported in OnSong :) Please do the following: Open the Display Preferences Menu (slider icon in the menubar)--> Tap on the Chords Tab from the bottom-->Select Nashville. If you want to apply this to a book or your entire ...