VideoPsalm's lyrics and chords editor is basically a Wysiwyg word processor, where you can set some attributes to individual words, characters or sentences:
The text attributes that you set in the lyrics editor are merged with the song verse style attributes when the slide is displayed.
Example The song verse is set to display in the “Candara” font via the hierarchical style.
To overwrite this font on a specific word or sentence, use the font dropdown located in the toolbar at the top of the text editor:
- Font face
- Font size
- Text color
- Outline color
- Bold
- Italic
- Underline
- Strikethrough
The text attributes that you set in the lyrics editor are merged with the song verse style attributes when the slide is displayed.
Example The song verse is set to display in the “Candara” font via the hierarchical style.
To overwrite this font on a specific word or sentence, use the font dropdown located in the toolbar at the top of the text editor:
Let's consider the first verse from “All of My Days”:
Note This song has chords, which are displayed on top of the lyrics, in a purple color.
This is how the verse is displayed to the audience:
This is how the verse is displayed to the audience:
Let's highlight the word “awesome” with the “
Showcard Gothic ” font: And let's set this word in a red color:
This is how the song verse gets displayed to the audience:
The changes that you make to the song lyrics are not reflected automatically.
To refresh a slide, double-click on its text in the slide list:
To refresh a slide, double-click on its text in the slide list:
Following features are available in the lyrics and chords editor:
List of shortcuts:
Note The editor cannot be used to edit Right To Left (RTL) text for Arabic and Hebrew languages.
At the moment, it is advised to use the simplified editor to edit RTL text.
You can activate the simplified editor in the VideoPsalm options.
Hopefully the support for RTL languages will be added in a future release.
See also
- Unlimited Undo/Redo (Ctrl+Z/Ctrl+Y), including chords.
- Copy/Paste, including with chords. Chords are copied or pasted in the ChordPro format.
- Search/Replace text.
- Standard word processor short cuts.
- Chords move with the character where they are attached to.
List of shortcuts:
- Bold Ctrl+B
- Italic Ctrl+I
- Underline Ctrl+U
- Clear formatting Ctrl+Space
- Grow font Ctrl+Shift+.
- Shrink font Ctrl+Shift+,
- Cut Ctrl+X
- Copy Ctrl+C
- Paste Ctrl+V
- Search Ctrl+F
- Replace Ctrl+H
- Move to next word Ctrl+Right
- Move to previous word Ctrl+Left
- etc.
Note The editor cannot be used to edit Right To Left (RTL) text for Arabic and Hebrew languages.
At the moment, it is advised to use the simplified editor to edit RTL text.
You can activate the simplified editor in the VideoPsalm options.
Hopefully the support for RTL languages will be added in a future release.
See also
- How to edit chords (to be supplied).
- How to activate and use the simplified editor to edit RTL text (to be supplied).
- How to set the editor to enable editing of transliterated text for Hindi, Malayalam, and other transliterated Indian fonts (to be supplied).