Pipeline,

Inspired by your 'out of the (band in a) box' thinking, I thought I'd play around by thinking within the box (I'm not in your league when it comes to being creative).

I would never have worked this out for myself if you hadn't given me the leg-up to begin with.

What I did was as follows...

1. I entered a chord progression.

2. In bar 1, I entered quarter notes on each beat in Notation Editor.

3. I then put an x for the lyric of each note.

4. Using "Edit | Copy Special | Copy from... to..." I then copied bar 1 to bar 2 (only the Melody and the Lyrics were checked for copying).

5. I then copied bars 1 and 2 to bars 3 and 4. Then bars 1 to 4 to bars 5 - 8, etc. When I had 8 bars, I used that as the block to copy to the rest of the song. (It took around 5 minutes.)

6. After that, I copied the lyrics to the Clipboard (setting the left margin to 0 characters) and then pasted from the Clipboard into LibreOffice.

7. In LibreOffice, I needed to format the lyrics a little so that I had four bars per line. That wasn't either time consuming or difficult, though.

8. Lastly, I replaced the 'x' character with the '/' character.

The '/' character can be used in BIAB for lyrics so I could have used it there rather than replace it in LibreOffice. It's worth noting, though, that the '/' doesn't show up in the Big Lyrics Window.

Below is what I had in LibreOffice word-processor at the end of the journey (thank you for the inspiration, Pipeline)...

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