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The Scrolly Thing
The document tab lets you tweak how each song looks—low light mode, tint color, fonts, paper size, margins, y'know, all the stuff that matters when you're squintin' at lyrics on stage & wonderin' why you can't read anything.
Tweak-O-Matic Settings
Tap the wrench icon in the upper left corner to mess with global system settings for how this menu acts. (Spoiler: it won't fix your actual reading ability, srsly.)
Tint Mode
The mode picks the colors OnSong uses to show your song & can help when the lights are awful or your eyes are havin' a rough time. Modes change when you flip Low Light Mode. If you don't pick anything, OnSong just shows the song all vanilla-like. Your options:
- Paper shows the song in crispy black & white. High contrast, amirite.
- Dim same deal as paper, but like... less aggressive.
- Sepia dim vibes but with warm, cozy color tones (Instagram filter energy).
- Sky overlays blue so it's easier on your eyeballs if light makes you want to cry.
Low Light Mode
To the right of the mode buttons is an icon to toggle low light mode. Toggle it & it sets it system-wide, which means it'll mess with whatever mode you picked too. This affects literally everything in OnSong—all your songs, all your menus, the whole shebang.
You can also tap & hold the low light button to pop up the Song Invert Mode context menu. From here you can force low light mode just for this one song, breakin' free from whatever the app is doin'. It's set to "default" out of the box, which means the song plays along when the system changes. But you? You can force it dark or light & ignore what the app says. Rebel.
Font Family
Five buttons at the top let you pick your font. Choose your own adventure:
- Sans-Serif is like Helvetica—clean, perfect for chord charts. It's the default & everyone's happy.
- Serif is like Georgia—might be easier to read if you're not a monster.
- Handwritten is like Marker—super narrow so you can cram more words on the page (compression, baybee).
- Monospaced is fixed-width like Courier—useful if you're the type who cares about aligning chords pixel-perfect.
- Custom lets you hunt for fonts buried on your device & pick one. Every time you tap it, the Custom Font screen pops up again (it's like Groundhog Day but for fonts).
Line Spacing
Want more stuff crammed onto the screen? Reduce line spacing. Want to breathe? Increase it. Tap the left & right icons next to the slider to dial in the exact amount you're feelin'. Range is 0.7 to 1.3 lines. Default is 1.0 (the Goldilocks zone).
Paper
Sets the virtual page size, which controls how big your fonts actually look. Bigger paper = smaller fonts. The icons on the right let you flip between portrait & landscape like you're orientatin' yourself at a concert.
Layout
Defines how your song looks when you're usin' the R2 Rendering Engine. Three controls of destiny:
Pagination
Choose continuous scrollin' or fake pages. You decide if you're lookin' at an infinite scroll or pretend paper.
Columns
Pick one or two columns. Two columns? Your song sections flow to the other half. Fancy.
Gutter
The gap between columns. Anywhere from 0" to 1" in 1/16" increments. Precise? Totes.
Margins
Add inset borders so text doesn't look like it's screamin' at the edge of your screen. Also makes room for Hot Corners & Navigation Zones when you're doin' section selection. Icon on the right shows which margin you're messin' with: left, right, top, or bottom.
Footer
Set the footer size as a percentage of your lyrics font. Use the button on the right to turn it on & off like a light switch.
All controls on this tab except low light mode apply to the song you picked. We'll talk about spreadin' your changes across your whole library in a hot sec.
Wanna reset everything to defaults? Tap the wrench icon in the upper left & head to Style Preferences Document options. You're welcome.
