Originally Posted by Jim Fogle
Gordon,
I'm not understanding your wishlist request. Here are some questions that your answers will help me better understand your suggestion.
You're wanting a one page lead sheet, correct?
Throughout the song there is a melody, correct?
You've placed a coda within the single chorus, correct?
The melody plays throughout the single chorus and coda, correct?
How many bars is the chorus? How many bars is the coda?
Is the number of song bars and number of coda bars more than can be printed on the single page lead sheet?
Is my assumption correct that the total number of bars is more than can be printed on one page? If not, where did I go off track?
Hi Jim,

BiaB will not let us add a coda/tag to a single chorus song.

I can put the bars and the melody there, but BiaB will neither let me put the "To Coda" or "Coda" marks, nor will it fold the song to do the same.

The problem isn't with the number of bars on a page (I normally use MuseScore for that anyway), it's that the song has to be at least two choruses long to be able to make a coda, and that BiaB seems to me pretty consistently to scramble the melody bars when folding. Maybe there's some quirk everyone who does this, except me, knows to avoid?

I really don't understand why BiaB/PGM simply refuse to allow a coda on a single chorus song. It's how leadsheets are normally written.

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