How to add two columns in a verse

witterholt

Hi, we have a few songs that require two texts for men and women to be displayed at the same time. I lined out two columns with spaces, but because of the font they aren't lined out nicely. I tried with formatting tags to create a html table with two columns and set the width style property of the td tag to 50%. But the table is printed in the center of the verse and the columns are placed after each other with no space between them. What is the easiest way to accomplish two columns in a verse where the first column starts left and the second column starts in the center.

Jinju Church

How about the css 3 column property?

div {

    -webkit-column-count: 2; 

}

witterholt

Thanks, I will try that next Sunday.

witterholt

Hi, I tried it. The problem with this method is that you cannot easily say what part of the text must appear in what column.

Azaziah

There's probably no easy way to achieve this and I'm afraid it would require a lot of changes and hard work to add this functionality to OpenLP and thus it's unlikely to be seen implemented in the next couple of years.

Maybe you could do it like this?

Men men men men
Men men men men
Men men men men

Women women
Women women
Women women

Men men men men2
Men men men men2
Men men men men2

Women women2
Women women2
Women women2

milon

We do this in our church with a couple songs by adding custom formatting tags.

The left-align tag is defined as: <div style="position:absolute;text-align:left;"> (with End HTML: </div>)
The right-align tag is defined as: <div style="position:absolute;text-align:right;width:100%;"> (with End HTML: </div>)

Then we use the left & right align tags like this to keep them on the same line, but split into columns:
{left}Women line 1{/left}{right}Men line 1{/right}
{left}Women line 2{/left}{right}Men line 2{/right}
etc...

witterholt

Thanks Milon. This tag should be included in the standard set tags that you get when installing OpenLP in my opinion.

witterholt

I made a small adjustment so that both columns are lined out at the left side as you can see in the image.

milon

I like it.  And I just might use that in the future.