To wrap or not to wrap?

Or maybe "Why is my song text so small and on one line only?"

This article describes why and when to use the "Wrap" button:

The "Wrap" button has following effect:

Image 1: Automatic word wrap is off

Image 2: Automatic word wrap is on

When "Word wrap" is off
VideoPsalm will reduce the text font size until the longest line fits the screen width.
This is what you can see in image 1.
In this situation, increasing the font size will have no effect, because the text is already as wide as it can be.
Possible consequence: The text may be too small when a song line is very long.
Solution: Insert new lines at the right places.

​By default, VideoPsalm is configured to not wrap long song lines: the automatic word wrap is off for songbooks.

"Word wrap" is "On" by default for Bible verses.
Read further below to adjust this globally if your Bible verses display very small on one line only.

When "Word wrap" is on:
VideoPsalm will apply the specified font size to the lyrics, possibly splitting long lines.
This is what you can see in image 2 on top, and in the 2 images below:

In this situation, increasing the font size will make sentences to wrap between words, possibly at unexpected places:

Sentences are split at unexpected places.

Sentences are split at the right places.

Solutions
To prevent VideoPsalm from wrapping sentences at the wrong places, you can either:

• In the lyrics editor, insert a new line at the right place.

or

• Replace specific blanks with "non-breaking spaces".

Non breaking spaces​ are displayed like regular spaces, but VideoPsalm will not split a sentence there.
To produce non-breaking spaces, press Ctrl+Shift+Blank (it works the same in MS-Word).
In its lyrics editor, VideoPsalm displays non-breaking spaces with an "Underline" red symbol "_".

Non breaking spaces are displayed with red underscore characters

Note  To set the non breaking space color in the lyrics editor, go to:
Options -> "Text Editor" tab -> "Non-breakable blank color" and select a more suitable color.

Conclusion  For songs, you will want to disable word wrapping.
VideoPsalm is configured by default to not wrap long song lines.
If for some reason your songs do wrap, you may want to disable word wrapping globally for all your songs.

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Disable word wrapping for all songbooks

​1. Select the "Songbooks" style level:

Alternatively, click the "Songbooks" button:

From now on, all changes that you do to the style attributes will be applied to the "Songbooks" style level, which means that they will apply to all songbooks, songs and song verses (unless the property is reassigned differently at a higher style level).

Note  To apply a style attribute to a specific songbook, click the songbook or select the "Songbook" style level while displaying one of its song verses.

2. Deselect the automatic word wrap option:

3. Save your changes:

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Enable word wrapping for all Bibles

If for some reason your Bible verses get displayed on one line only, in a very small font, it means that the word wrap option is disabled:

Bible word wrap is "Off", producing too small and unreadable text.

Bible word wrap is "On", so that the font size is correctly rendered.

To enable word wrap for all Bible verses:

​​1. Select the "Bibles" style level:

Alternatively, click the "Bibles" button:

From now on, all changes that you do to the style attributes will be applied to the "Bibles" style level, which means that they will apply to all Bibles, Bible books, chapter and verses (unless the property is reassigned at a higher style level).

​2. Select the automatic word wrap option:

Carefull  Whenever you adjust a style attribute, make sure to firstly check at what level you currently are.
If you inadvertently modified a style attribute at the wrong level, use the style explorer to reset your changes.

3. Save your changes:

Additional read
VideoPsalm uses the concept of cascading style attributes, enabling you to define any style attribute at any level: song verse, song, songbook, all songbooks, base.

How to change the background of a song or a whole songbook - Cascading styles part one
How to assign a background to a song verse or to the whole song - Cascading styles part two
Three methods to display a background/logo between two songs
How to remove an image assigned to a song verse
How to adjust slide text margins

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