Need to set FONT in the Notes

Feature requests
1

This is what comes out:
A E
Oh I come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee,
A E A
I’m going to Louisiana, my true love for to see

When the input was in a monofaced font, like Courier New. Defaulting to Verdana or some such with different spacing makes copy/pasting hard to use. Either choose a monoface, or let the user choose? Or maybe you did & I just can’t find it? THANKS. Pete A

2

Sounds like a good user preference to make available. I’ll make a note of it.

In the meantime, I can suggest a workaround using a browser extension that lets you override the styling on any website. What web browser are you using?

3

Thanks, Luke!
Using MS Edge and sometimes Google Chrome, but running the downloaded version of Strum Machine in Windows 10. Not sure how browser settings matter?

4

Browser settings don’t matter here.

For Google Chrome, you can install the Stylus extension, which will allow you to apply custom styles (CSS) to any website.

Then, do the following:

  1. Go to strummachine.com (or beta.strummachine.com) and then activate the Stylus extension through the icon that it adds to the add-ons toolbar in the top-right area of Chrome. Allow permissions as necessary.

  2. Under “Write style for:”, click on “strummachine.com”

  3. Paste the following code into the big textbox:

     .notesArea-noteContent,
 .notesArea-editor {
     font-family: monospace;
 }

  4. Click Save and close the style editor. Your notes should now be in monospace font!

If you have a specific font you want to use, just replace the word “monospace” with that font. Wrap it in quotes if the font name has a space in it.

For Edge, this extension looks like a similar alternative but I’ve never used it so I can’t vouch for it personally. On the other hand, I’ve been using Stylus for years to tweak the appearance of various websites that I frequent.

And again, eventually this will be a preference within Strum Machine so we won’t need this workaround!

5

Thanks, Luke.
I couldn’t get the Edge suggestion to work. Will wait until it is part of Strum Machine.
Pete A

Here’s an example of what I’m trying to do:
image
which we project on a screen, turns into this if I past into Notes.
image

I also use the Notes when practicing singing/playing while strum sets the backing. So I’m looking at the lyrics with chords over them, NOT at the SM playing. OF COURSE, I can open the formatted Lead Sheets…

Also, if I could paste in images, could do screen grabs and paste them in. But Notes, even in the beta, does not support.
Thanks!
Pete A