Why don the chords line up correctly over the song lyrics?
A. (I borrowed this explanation from the Cowpie site) “Because the Internet consists of people using all sorts of computer operating systems and application programs, song files are formatted as monospaced ASCII text. ASCII is a sort of common computer alphabet so that if you write the letter ‘A’ on one system, then another one will recognise it as such. It covers just the basic Roman alphabet with some control characters (which you probably won’t use). Monospaced means that each letter occupies the same width on a line of text. To display it this way you’ll need to use a monospaced font (sometimes called typewriter font). When you write songs, be sure to use one of these fonts and use spaces instead of tabs to line up the chords over the lyrics. Tabs will expand to different numbers of spaces on different systems and even in different programs on the same system.” For the above reason, and the problems I’ve had, if you’re in any doubt create your submissions in the following format: W
