> 2- Since I do not like to have to sweep thru the title and author, I found a trick that works well. First import both the lyrics and the .wav file. Then hit the "Place Lyric" button. Next comes the tricky part: Depress the "start" button BUT DO NOT LET GO OF THE MOUSE BUTTON.
I found a less awkward way to do a full screen of unswept text on the start. It doesn't involve doing yoga on your desktop to achieve it either.
Do three (only three) lines and a blank line followed by the start of your lyrics:
-----start-----
"Eat It"
M. Jackson, A. Yankovic
Private CD+G by GordonF
-----blank-----
-----page break-----
- - - >> How come you're always
such a fussy young man?
Don't want no Cap'n Crunch
Don't want no Raisin Bran
-----page break, etc etc-------
Before pressing the Start button, click the Place Word button with the mouse enough times to cover these first three lines, then click Pause Sweep once. Note that neither the spacebar nor CTRL key work until after you press Start. Then, when you're ready to play, press Start and press spacebar when it's time to erase these first lines and start placing your lyrics.
The end effect is three lines of unswept text at the very beginning of the CDG. If the singing starts real soon, you might want to add some empty audio at the start of your wave file to give time to draw that first screen. Also speaking of your wave files, a good sound editor is a must, even something like Creative's Wave Studio from the AWE64 kit will do.
Also note the prompt at the beginning of the lyrics - that's another trick I use at the start of songs and after instrumental breaks, to prompt the singer when to start singing. I use Pause Sweep liberally when placing the dashes for an "instant change" effect, except I let the sweep drag through the ">>" characters a little bit. I notice that SGB uses this trick in their disks, which makes me wonder what kind of cheap software they're using.
MTU: Don't you be fixing these 'bugs' because they're actually features.
[font color=red]MTU Hears you. If we do away with these for any reason, we will try to insert the functional equal in an "approved" manner.[/font]