[openlp-dev] Optional Split Saga

[Tim and Alison Bentley]

To answer Ians question.
Optional split will split a verse only when it needs to be split due to a
slide not being able to fit the display. At present with out this the last
line would be added to a new slide. This is needed when songs run on
different text sizes and display sizes.
The Optional split is being added in 2.6 and will allow a verse to be kept
in section in the editor but then split at run time. For example for us a
hymn of 8 lines would kept in 2 verses as we display only 6 lines per
screen. Now we could store this in one verse and with the split decide at
run time to create two verses.

On 25 Aug 2017 13:54, "Ian Knight" <ieknight1101 at gmail.com> wrote:

Perhaps something like "Insert Auto-Break" and "Split Verse"

Regards,

Ian Knight
On 25/08/17 22:19, Lane Lester wrote:

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I confess I have no idea what the Optional Split does (what? read the
doc?). The only splitting I do is to add a second ---[Verse:1]--- to split
a long verse into two screens.
The Optional Split button inserts [---] which doesn't seem to do anything.
There's no Divide button, so I guess that's in newer code than I have.
>From what you wrote, I assume the Divide (Force Split) does the same thing
I accomplish by duplicating the label as described in my first paragraph
above.
Side note: I read somewhere that it's not good to have more than six lines
on the screen, for the viewers' sake. So I've been splitting long verses as
I get to them.

Lane

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On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 3:40 AM, Raoul Snyman <raoul at snyman.info> wrote:

> Hey guys and gals,
>
> As some folks are aware, we've had an ongoing saga about the "Optional
> Split" button in the song editor. Many people seem to think that it meant
> that a particular verse would be split at that particular location every
> time (no matter if there was or wasn't enough space in the slide). Along
> the way we've had people ask for a way to force a verse to split (much like
> some people expect the optional split to work).
>
> Between Olli and Tim, they've implemented the second split option. This is
> great, but I'm not sure that the current nomenclature for the buttons is
> correct.
>
> Currently, the buttons are labelled "Optional Split" and "Divide". After
> some careful thought, my wife suggested "Auto Split" and "Force Split".
> Does anyone have any other ideas?
>
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