Gimme Some Breathing Room

Spacing settings let you tweak how spaces mess with your chord chart drawings (yeah, spaces are that petty). Buckle up:

Whitespace? More Like Spacebar Shenanigans

So when you chuck chords above lyrics, they're supposed to line up all neat-like. But if there's no lyrics to hug? Chords just space themselves using a regular space character. Problem: in those fancy variable-width fonts, a space is like 35% the width of a big "M"—which means your chords look farther apart than they actually are. Tragedy.

Flip on the adjust whitespace toggle & it'll swap space characters for something chunkier when measuring. Basically it's a band-aid for the space character being a tiny wimp. Off by default (because we're lazy).

That Substitute Space Character Thingy

Got adjust whitespace cranked on? Cool. We're using an underscore as a fake space now to pretend it's wider. Wanna use a different character to fine-tune this hot mess? You got it. Default's underscore, because we're creative like that.

Tab Spaces (The Villain Arc)

Tabs are the WORST for text-based chord charts, amirite? Tab characters mean different things in different editors & viewers—it's chaos. OnSong swaps tabs for a pile of regular spaces instead (groundbreaking, we know). Pick anywhere from 0 to 20 spaces. Default's 8 (it's a Goldilocks number).

Trim Whitespace (The Cleanup Crew)

Flick this on & we'll nuke all the awkward whitespace hanging around the start & end of your lines. It's like Marie Kondo for your chords. On by default (finally, one good decision).