Hi Jeff,

Fake Sheet Mode (in Lead Sheet view) works hand in hand with Fake Sheet in Chordsheet view. It's a way of contracting the song display when repeats, etc., are used. So when it's activated, the display would return to the beginning as selected bars could potentially be "hidden" bars.

Lead Sheet mode, on the other hand, aligns with where the cursor is on the chordsheet. For example, if the cursor is on bar 50 on the chord sheet, bar 50 will be the starting point when switching to Lead Sheet mode.


In case it's useful information for some who might read this thread....

To see how the different modes operate, open the tutorial file called "Repeats Tutorial example 2 with 1st-2nd and DC al Fine.MGU". It's in the folder...

"\bb\Documentation\Tutorials\Tutorial - Repeats and Endings"

This songfile has first/second endings.

If you now go to LeadSheet view and toggle the Fake Sheet Mode, you'll see how the display changes as it changes from linear view to condensed view.


Now...

Go back to the chordsheet.

1) You'll probably notice that there are bar numbers missing. The song jumps from bar 8 to bar 15 and bars 9 to 14 seem to have disappeared. While the song is 32 bars long, not all 32 bars are showing.

2) Locate the "Fake Sheet" toggle (top image, below) and click on it. The missing bars will now be exposed and grayed out. This is linear mode. The grayed out regions are because sections have been defined as repeated sections.

The Fake Sheet Mode is the equivalent of what a great deal of print music uses. In BIAB, most of us work in linear mode so Fake Sheet Mode does nothing. If a user chooses to define repeats, DC al Coda, etc., then Fake Sheet Mode is important.

Regards,
Noel

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