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Chris, lots of us make typos. It's "Fakesheet" and it will print as Michael described.

But even when you print that correctly it still looks bad in most cases. There's several little tricks some of us use for this. For me the biggest problem with Biab Fakecharts is the 1st/2nd ending lines and numbers and the DS/Coda signs. They are way too small and many times overwrite the chord symbols and therefore look like crap. After spending a lot of time trying to massage the system to fix that it occurred to me I was trying too hard. All we're talking about visually is staff lines with chords on a page. What I came up with is enter the chords not as the song actually is supposed to play but simply how they appear on the page, period. Just look at any one page chart and what do you see visually? 7 or 9 staff lines with chords above them. Just enter those chords in that order and ignore any repeats, symbols or words. Then I print it and simply write in the lines for the 1st/2nd endings, the DS and Coda symbols. With most songs that takes what, 1-2 minutes to enter the chords like that? Then it might take you another 2 minutes to write in those endings and symbols. Stop busting our heads about "fixing" Biab's more complex print functions. Yes, it's clunky and funky looking in many cases but it prints the basic staff lines with the melody and chord symbols great. Time to move on and just get our work done.

This of course requires a separate Biab file just for the chart because the song certainly won't play correctly. It doesn't see a 1st ending or a repeat, it just blows through those changes to the end.

Hope this make sense.

Bob



Bob...you make excellent sense. Recently...long after you figured it out...I began to do the exact same thing. Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness and quite obviously BIAB is not intended to be...and clearly isn't...a high end music notation package.

And hey...we all grew up on Real Books and Fake books which are all HAND written anyway so adding hand written elements to what BIAB prints out would only make them look more "familiar."

And yes...I too create "chart versions" of songs which I label as such in the Title. But I delete the "chart version" portion of the title in the printing options before printing them out.

Best,
Jim