User Manual

Syntax

Below are the characters that you can insert into the front of the line, or surrounding words and phrases, to format your charts.

Bold

This can be accomplished by appending the line or adding an asterisk to the inline selection.

This <*word is bold> and this isn't.
*Or we can make the whole line bold.

Italic

This can be accomplished with a forward slash character like the following:

/This whole line will be italic.
Or just the word </italic> will be.

Emphasized

You can bold and italicize text with a single exclamation point like this:

!This line will be bold and italic.
Or <!just this phrase> will be.

Underline^†

You can underline text using the underscore character like so:

_Underline the entire line of text...
Or just the <_thing you want> to.

Backslant^†

This is similar to italics but in the opposite direction. You can do this using a backslash:

\This line will be backslanted.
Or make it only on <\certain words>.

Text Color

You can use an ampersand to make the text a color either with a named color, or using HTML color codes. For instance:

&red:This line contains red text.
This <�C6B3:word is a custom color> that's like teal.

Highlight Color

You can also highlight text using a similar syntax with the greater than sign.

>yellow:This line will be highlighted in yellow
Or I'll have a <>#0000FF33:very light blue Christmas> without you by specifying opacity as the last hexadecimal value.

Font Family^†

You can change the font used by naming it:

$Courier:This line will be in Courier font.

Font Size^†

You can also change the size of text. Use a number that is greater or equal to 6 as the size in terms of points. You can also use a number less than 6 to indicate a multiple of the base font size. For instance, "2" would be 200% the size of the base font.

^2:This line is 200% the size of the other lines.
Make <^42:forty-two points> in size.

Links^†

You can type in a web address or URL into the chart and OnSong will automatically detect it and format it as a link. Links are displayed underlined in the app color and will open within the app in a Safari view or as a video player. You can also add a label to use in place of the URL by following the link with the text in parenthesis:

Make sure to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kKDXgn16JY(watch this tutorial on YouTube).

^† Requires R2, the new rendering engine available in OnSong 2024.

OnSong 2024 — Last Updated on July 18, 2024