Boring Text Docs

If you've scribbled your chord charts or lyrics sheets in like, Microsoft Word or whatever, you can totally peek at those bad boys "as-is" in OnSong. Buuuut—and this is a big snarky BUT—these file types are basically read-only museum pieces. No editing, no formatting, no dimmer switch vibes. Why? Because every word processor out there is basically having its own little identity crisis, & converting that chaos into plain text? LMAO, good luck with that. It ain't happenin' perfectly, fam.

Wanna actually salvage that word soup? OnSong's got your back (kinda). Fire up the Song Makeover Station & smash the Text Extraction Button chillin' in the Conversion Toolbar that shows up right before the keyboard yells at you. OnSong will try to yeet that text outta the file, but spoiler alert: you're gonna need to babysit it & massage it into a format OnSong actually recognizes. Srsly.

Here's the tea ☕ on what's gonna go sideways:

Chord Spacing Nightmares

Word processing files love to be jerks about chord spacing. Why? Because nerds wrote chord charts by slamming spaces everywhere to line chords up all pretty-like over lyrics. Fixed-width fonts? Variable-width fonts? Doesn't matter—it's chaos. Convert to plain text & BOOM 💥 your chords have yeet'd themselves to the right edge of the galaxy.

Deploy the Spacing Fixer 3000 lurkin' inside the Text Toolbox (which lives in the Menu Thing of the Song Makeover Station) to drag those chords back from the shadow realm, then hand-tweak 'em like the artist you pretend to be.

Mystery Character Gremlins

Here's where imported files get all haunted: special characters. Specifically? Microsoft Word's "smart quotes" transform into weird interdimensional letter-looking blobs. It's not a bug, it's a feature of Word's international character nonsense.

Wanna fix this dumpster fire? Either (A) nuke smart quotes in your word processor before exporting, (B) export as boring plain-text (*.txt) & import that into OnSong instead, or (C) copy-paste your chaos directly into OnSong Console & debug it live while maintainin' your sanity (barely). Your choice, chief.