<p>Hello MickW and thank you for reporting.</p><p>Optional split means that the song will be only split if it does not fit one slide.<br>If you want to force the split, you should duplicate the verse tag (Eg. Verse1).</p><p> Example of Optional splitting:</p><p>Theme supports max 4 lines of text<br>A<br>B<br><split><br>C<br>D</p><p>Output:<br>A<br>B<br>C<br>D</p><p>Theme supports max 3 lines of text</p><p>A<br>B<br><split><br>C<br>D</p><p>Output:<br>A<br>B</p><p>New slide<br>C<br>D</p><p>If no split is used, the output will be:<br>A<br>B<br>C</p><p>New slide<br>D</p><p>The meaning of optional split is somewhat confusing,<br>and you are not the only one reporting this issue.</p><p>https://bugs.launchpad.net/openlp/+bug/858344</p><p>We are hoping to add "Force-split" functionality somewhere<br>in the future, even possibly for the 2.5.1 release.</p><p>I've worked on this but I've also met some technical difficulties in the making.</p>