Add capability to insert html code into Lyrics track

Feature Requests
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In order to create nice table representing the jazz grid as text lyrics in order to see chords into Table with border and text centered. With this feature no limitation to represents chords by mixing html code + css. example of code

table{ width:95%; border-collapse:collapse; } td{ border:1px solid black; text-align:center; }
A-7 B-7 D %
C A-7 G-7 C
Thanks
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Hey @Pat,

I’ll pass this along, though I’m not sure how feasible it would be to implement.
As of now, Lyrics clips treat the content as text and do not interpret HTML.

As a workaround, one approach that works well for layouts like this is to generate images of the chord grids and display them in the lyrics track.

AbleSet also includes a Lyrics Image Generator that can convert a PDF or formatted lyrics sheet into images that are automatically turned into lyrics clips.
That can work nicely for things like jazz style chord grids.

You could design the grid exactly how you want (table layout, borders, centered chords, etc.), export it as a PDF or image, and then generate the lyrics clips from it.

Let me know if this could work for your setup!

3

Thanks,

I did that for part of my songs but not efficient to modify quiclky this is why I thunk html. I do a request for new features. :slightly_smiling_face: . Thanks for your time. Have a good day.

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Hey @Pat, you might have luck with using the chord syntax and styling those elements for a style that works for you.

For example, you could achieve this look with the following CSS:

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.word:not(:last-child) .part:has(.chord):after {
    content: "";
    border-right: 0.4vmin solid #fff;
    margin: 0 1vmin;
}

This doesn’t align the chords for each line with each other like tables would in columns, but it might be a good compromise :slight_smile:

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Hi leaolabs, Thanks for your reply. The problem is if you have several chord on same measure you can’t do it. I wish one day the capability will be added to be also very accurate for chords. I love ableset for lyrics but for professionnal musician we can’t use chord into lyrics. We need to have measure drawing. I cross the fniger for near futur :slight_smile: