This is Just way... way too cool.

Right now we have photo copied transparencies...

Heh. We weren't *that* bad off--music director had been using an app called "Astound", which wasn't working well; the slide content basically had to be cut and pasted for each slideshow. I felt it was a silly approach when your content changes slowly, if at all. So Lyrica improves upon that approach by offering:

1. Fast slideshow compilation. Put together a slideshow from existing sources in seconds. More to the point: my director doesn't have to prepare the show at home and bring in a disk every Sunday morning.
2. Portability. You don't need a viewer other than a web browser.
3. Consistency. The old way had a real problem when you fixed a typo in one show and it didn't propagate to other shows.
4. Flexible style. The default I included is pretty basic white-on-black. The nice thing is it's completely configurable (within the boundaries of web page design). If anyone tweaks it, I'd appreciate a copy of the css so I can include it.
5. Minimal markup. You can in a pinch show the slide files on their own, one at a time.
6. Some nice hints. In my default css, for example, choruses are slightly yellow. That's gotten good feedback from the users. The first page gets a different h1 style, so the presenter can tell which slide is the first one when they navigate. In addition, pages with multiple slides get less-than and greater-than arrows at the bottom of the page so the presenter knows there are multiple slides for the same song/page.

I'm glad you got me started on that list :) Maybe I'll put it on the website.

Future:

1. I might make a tool for marking up the song files themselves.
2. It's a shame it's IE only. You can show them in Moz 1.4 if you make a slight change in the addpage() function (basically, don't remove file:///), but then you have to make slideshows by hand. I used the DOM as much as possible, but it's not enough. I'll think about it when I have time.
3. Clean things up. Nicer layout on the toolbar frame.
4. Some of the pages have CCLI license numbers on them. I should make a script that does that for me, with its own style.
5. Document it better.

Post #117,874 by folkert 9/15/03 4:07:35 PM 9/15/03 4:13:31 PM Reply	This is Just way... way too cool. Joo need any other things transcribed? I was just thinking of buying a used projector for my church to use and was wondering about howto do just what lyrica does. Right now we have photo copied transparencies... Thank you Robert Brewer. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* lackey in training. Edited by folkert Sept. 15, 2003, 04:13:31 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #117,885 by FuManChu 9/15/03 5:28:45 PM Reply	De nada. Right now we have photo copied transparencies... Heh. We weren't that bad off--music director had been using an app called "Astound", which wasn't working well; the slide content basically had to be cut and pasted for each slideshow. I felt it was a silly approach when your content changes slowly, if at all. So Lyrica improves upon that approach by offering: 1. Fast slideshow compilation. Put together a slideshow from existing sources in seconds. More to the point: my director doesn't have to prepare the show at home and bring in a disk every Sunday morning. 2. Portability. You don't need a viewer other than a web browser. 3. Consistency. The old way had a real problem when you fixed a typo in one show and it didn't propagate to other shows. 4. Flexible style. The default I included is pretty basic white-on-black. The nice thing is it's completely configurable (within the boundaries of web page design). If anyone tweaks it, I'd appreciate a copy of the css so I can include it. 5. Minimal markup. You can in a pinch show the slide files on their own, one at a time. 6. Some nice hints. In my default css, for example, choruses are slightly yellow. That's gotten good feedback from the users. The first page gets a different h1 style, so the presenter can tell which slide is the first one when they navigate. In addition, pages with multiple slides get less-than and greater-than arrows at the bottom of the page so the presenter knows there are multiple slides for the same song/page. I'm glad you got me started on that list :) Maybe I'll put it on the website. Future: 1. I might make a tool for marking up the song files themselves. 2. It's a shame it's IE only. You can show them in Moz 1.4 if you make a slight change in the addpage() function (basically, don't remove file:///), but then you have to make slideshows by hand. I used the DOM as much as possible, but it's not enough. I'll think about it when I have time. 3. Clean things up. Nicer layout on the toolbar frame. 4. Some of the pages have CCLI license numbers on them. I should make a script that does that for me, with its own style. 5. Document it better. "There's a set of rules that anything that was in the world when you were born is normal and natural. Anything invented between when you were 15 and 35 is new and revolutionary and exciting, and you'll probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things." Douglas Adams
Post #152,525 by FuManChu 4/25/04 1:56:01 AM Reply	Lyrica 2.0 RC 1 is available. I finally officially updated Lyrica, adding: 1. A slide editing tool 2. A stylesheet previewer 3. Help pages 4. A cleaner, more intuitive interface 5. More styles Grab it at [link\|http://www.aminus.org/rbre/music/index.html\|http://www.aminus.or.../music/index.html] Best bet is just to grab the zip (4.36 MB).

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