Great tip Noel. My problem is I don't do this very often and when I do it's always a rushed last minute thing and I forget how it works. What I've figured out is this:

Look at a real correct fake chart and while looking at it visualize it in your mind without any markings at all, see just the chords. That's what you enter in Biab, just the chords in the proper order, forget about creating the actual structure, no 1st/2nd endings, no DS, no tags etc. Just the chords as they should look on the page. Print that out and handwrite in those marks.

I don't like what Biab does for section letters or DS and coda signs for example, I put a wider margin on the left of the page so I can write those in myself. For me that's quick and easy and I don't have to remember all these little quirky things in Biab.

Of course after doing this I have to either scan them or copy them for the other players. It's better if it can all be done correctly in the program and use the automatic pdf function but I'm not seeing that so far.

I will increase the font size but that only goes so far because it increases the staff and melody note size as well. If you know of a way to increase just the chord symbol size without increasing the staff that would be great to know.

We've all talked over the years about how this print function needs to be overhauled but with all the other changes going on including producing new RT's for every version it seems to get continually pushed to the back burner. I know Biab is not marketed as a notation program and those programs cost more than Biab itself but still I think fixing some of these things is warranted.

Bob

Last edited by jazzmammal; 08/31/14 09:56 AM.
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