Lyrics on stage: text size, font and line wrapping

Some songs need more help than others: the one with long verses you only half know, or the chart you read from the floor. Zoom it on the chords and lyrics page and it keeps that size every time you open it, while the rest of your songs stay at your standard size. Tap an empty spot on the page to bring up the controls, then use Zoom in and Zoom out, which change the size a little at a time.

On a phone or tablet you can also pinch the lyrics with two fingers to make them bigger or smaller. On a computer, pinch on the trackpad, or hold Ctrl and turn the mouse wheel over the song.

Auto, next to the zoom buttons, fits the text to the width of the screen: the song grows or shrinks until its longest line just fits. On a wide screen it says Auto, and on a phone it is a small icon in the same place. To pick an exact size instead, tap the size: a slider opens from 35% to 400%, and Reset takes the song back to your standard size.

Set your standard size once on each device, so every song opens big enough to read from where you stand. Under Settings, Text and chords, the Size slider changes it while the preview shows the result. Every song opens at this size unless you have zoomed it yourself, and a zoomed song keeps its own size even when you change the standard later.

The font changes how the whole song reads, chords and lyrics together, and all four keep the chords right above the words they belong to. Readable, the standard, is extra clear and the easiest to read on stage. Handdrawn has a handwritten feel, playful but slower to take in at a glance, Soft is rounded and friendly, and Typewriter gives you the look of a classic chord sheet. Try each one in the preview before you settle.

Long lines are where a phone and a printed chord sheet differ most. Fit to screen, the standard, wraps a long line at the edge of the screen, chords and all, so you never scroll sideways. Preserve layout keeps every line exactly as written, so a line wider than the screen runs off the edge until you zoom out; tap Auto on the song to make the longest line fit. Choose it for songs where the line breaks matter, such as a chart written out in bars, and remember you can set it for one song only, where it is called Layout. Once the text reads well, make the chords stand out with a chord style of your own.