As a long time user of Zionworx I love the software, and get mildly irritated when i hear of churches unnecessarily paying out large sums of money when they can get a better piece of software for a much better price.
Here's an idea that i have been having for text formatting:
1// Vertical centering. I know it's been mentioned before, but have been to different churches in the last month, one where the lyrics needed to be top aligned, one where they really needed to be vertically aligned, and on where they needed to be bottom aligned. Can we have this as an option setting please?
2// Intelligent line breaks. If a lyric is too long for one line, it gets wraped onto the next line. This is good. However, imagine if the software was clever enough to evenly break the line somewhere near the middle to make the break more even?
So that, instead of:
They will dance with joy like we're dancing
now
You might get
They will dance with joy
Like we're dancing now
Doing this would look a lot more professional on screen. I often get embarrased when a badly breaking line appears onscreen. It looks unprofessional!
As an even clever added bonus, the software could be clever enough that if a line that needs to break already contains a comma, then that could be used as a guide for an alternative break point.
Sure, not every line would break where it should, but at least it would look a little better than the long line, short orphan thing that I currently get.
Perhaps (and we're getting really clever now) automatic capitalisation of the first letter of every line could be an option too?
3// Intelligent line spacing. I know - I need a computer that also makes me a cup of tea and calls me "dave", but how about intelligent line spacing too? Sometimes just one or two lines of a verse slip onto the following slide because it is too long. How about if Zionworks was clever enough to say "hey, with a tiny little tightening of line spacing, we could fit that all in". Nothing too terrific, but it's amazing what 10% can do sometimes.
Am I dreaming? Probably.
Is it possible? Yes.
I hope all this makes sense. And thanks so much ZW team!