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Your Stage Setup (aka The Stuff You'll Never Stop Tweakin')
OnSong uses the concept of a sheet of paper to render chord charts. (Yep, it's basically a digital napkin.) This allows the size of fonts and other elements to be measured relative to the paper size. OnSong displays this virtual sheet of paper with the width of the device reflecting the width of the sheet of paper. This means that rotating the device into landscape orientation will make the font appear larger. (Revolutionary, we know. You're welcome.)
The page layout section contains the following settings that affect not only how OnSong draws chord charts on the screen, but also as device settings for printing. (Basically, we let you pretend this is real paper.)
The Papery Situation
Paper size is used to determine the width and height of the song page. Options include:
- US Letter which is 8.5" by 11". Default. (The boring one.)
- US Legal which is 8.5" by 14". (For when you need MORE legal drama.)
- Tabloid which is 11" by 17". (Overkill much?)
- A5 which is 148mm by 210mm. (European tiny.)
- A4 which is 210mm by 297mm. (The fancy European standard.)
- A3 which is 297mm by 420mm. (Go big or go home, amirite?)
Which Way Is Up, Tho?
The paper orientation refers to if the page is in portrait or landscape orientation. Portrait is selected by default. (We picked the boring one for you.)
The Squishy Bits Around the Edges
Adjust the margins of the page to inset the chords and lyrics from the edge. Margins can be set for the left, right, top and bottom margins separately. Options include 0", 1/8", 1/4", 3/8", 1/2", 3/4", 1", 1-1/4" & 1-1/2". Default is 3/4". (We chose a number at random, srsly.) Remember to maintain some top margin to compensate for the menubar & status bar which overlap the chord chart. (Surprise! Your phone is in the way. You're welcome.)