Font Selection Dialog

The Font Selection Dialog allows fine-grained support over fonts for song elements in the Printer and Full Screen output destinations. Buttons on the output destinations' respective property pages in the Options Dialog will open the Font Selection Dialog.

Controls

The dialog contains the following controls, in addition to OK and Cancel buttons:

Font

This list contains all of the elements (or directives) that have adjustable fonts. Select the font to set from this list.

Set

Clicking this button will open a standard Font Chooser dialog, which can be used to set the font attributes for the currently selected element in the Font list.

Adjust

This button is provided as a convenience function to quickly set the font sizes for all elements (or even to "reset" the font sizes). Clicking this button will adjust all font sizes relative to the current "normal text" font size.
Note: In Songsheet Generator versions prior to 2.3, the font sizes were automatically selected relative to the point size of the "normal text" (lyrics). This button will perform the size adjustment in the prior-to-2.3 way.

Copy

This button is provided as a convenience function to make the font settings consistent between the Printer Output and Full Screen Presentation. Clicking this button will adjust all of the font settings (except color) to be the same as those from from the "opposite" options settings page. When fonts are being set for the printer, settings will be copied from the Full Screen settings. When fonts are being set for the Full Screen Presentation, settings will be copied from the printer settings.
Note: In Songsheet Generator versions prior to 2.3, the fonts styles for the Printer Output and Full Screen Presentation were always the same.

Font Display

The panel to the right side of the dialog displays the current font style, size, and color for each element. When fonts are being set for the printer, the background is white. When fonts are being set for the Full Screen Presentation, the background matches the currently selected Full Screen background color.

Available Song Elements

The following elements (or directives) appear in the Font list, and can have unique font settings:

• Title ({title:})
• Subtitle ({subtitle:})
• Normal text (lyrics)
• Chords
• Comments (not including guitar/instrumental comments) ({comment:})
• Guitar/instrumental comments ({guitar-comment:})
• Chord grids
• Tab notation (text between {start_of_tab} and {end_of_tab})
• Footer text

For futher information on elements, see the ChordPro Song File Format Reference.