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The document tab lets you dial in the vibe for each song—low light mode, tint color, font, paper size, margins, basically all the nitty-gritty stuff that makes your lyrics not look like a blurry mess.
The Wrench Thingy
Tap the wrench icon in the upper left corner to mess with the global system settings for how this menu acts. Spoiler: this doesn't touch your per-song formatting. That stays weird on its own.
Tint Mode
The mode is basically your color mood ring—it decides how the song looks on screen & can help if you're performin' under stage lights from the 80s or if screens make your eyes do the wiggly thing. Modes auto-adjust for Low Light Mode. Pick nothin'? OnSong just does its default thing. Your options are basically:
- Paper is black & white, high contrast, like you printed it on an actual printer. Radical.
- Dim is like paper but sadder—lower contrast, more squinty vibes.
- Sepia is dim with warm tones, very "vintage diary entry."
- Sky throws blue at everything to chill out visual stress disorders. Blue fixes everything, right?
Low Light Mode
To the right of the mode buttons is an icon to toggle low light mode. Hit it & it goes system-wide, which means every song & menu in OnSong gets the memo. You'll see the changes ripple through whatever mode you picked too.
Tap & hold the low light button & BAM—Song Invert Mode context menu appears. From here you can lock in low light mode for just that one song document. It's set to "default" by default (we're real creative), which means the song follows whatever the app is doin'. Want it dark no matter what? Want it bright & blinding? You can force that right here, independent of the app's vibe.
Font Family
Five buttons at the top let you pick the font for your whole song. Five. Whole. Options. Choose from:
- Sans-Serif is Helvetica energy—perfect for chord charts. The default because we said so.
- Serif is Georgia vibes, easier to read if you squint real hard.
- Handwritten is narrow like Marker, fits more stuff on the screen 'cause tiny fonts solve everything.
- Monospaced is Courier, fixed-width, great if you're tryna align chords like some kinda nerd. (We say that lovingly.)
- Custom opens an ellipsis where you browse fonts on your device like you're actually gonna use Comic Sans. Every time you tap it, the Custom Font screen comes back for more punishment.
Line Spacing
Want more on screen? Smash that line spacing down. Want it breathable? Crank it up. Tap the icons left & right of the sliders to fine-tune like you're a perfectionist. Ranges from 0.7 to 1.3 lines. Default's 1.0 because balance is everythin'.
Paper
Sets the virtual page size, which is how big your fonts actually look. Big paper = tiny fonts. The icons on the right let you flip between portrait & landscape, so you can rotate your device like a teenager changin' their mood.
Layout
This section controls how your document flows when you're usin' the R2 Rendering Engine. Three controls for the control-freaks:
Pagination
Choose continuous scrolling (live dangerously) or break it into virtual sheets (like paper but digital, so… not really like paper).
Columns
One column or two. Pick two & your song sections flow into the other half. It's like splittin' a screen but for lyrics.
Gutter
The space between columns. Options: 0" to 1" in 1/16" chunks. Yes, we go that granular.
Margins
Add insets to the edges so text doesn't live in the danger zone. Also useful for Hot Corners & Navigation Zones when you're feelin' fancy with section selection. The icon on the right shows when margins change: left, right, top, or bottom.
Footer
Set the footer size as a percentage of your lyrics font. There's also a button to turn the footer on & off when you're tired of lookin' at it.
Everything on this tab except low light mode applies to just that one song. Wanna copy your setup to other songs? Stick around, we'll show you.
Change the default values for literally every aspect of the document by tappin' the wrench icon in the upper left corner to get into Style Preferences Document mode. We know, we know.
