[clarkkentjt]

So I'm using text files to import into my MobileSheetsPro on my Android Tablet. 
I prefer using text files because I can easily adjust the text for a page break and the chords are easily transposed to a preferred song key. Yay!
All the chord letters, above the lyrics, show in Blue background highlight. Perfect! Which means those letters will easily be transposed.

However, if there are non-chord characters on the same line with the chord letters, it doesn't recognise the Chord letters. (eg. can't transpose them).
After trying in vain, I've found G/D is correctly parsed / recognized, and has the pretty Blue background highlighting G  G/D. 
However, if I have a repeat "x4" or "4x" on the same line after the chord letters, that seems to negate recognizing the entire line of chord letters altogether.
Oddly, I have another text file song, where I have 2x at the end of all the chords, and that parsed / recognized all the chords correctly.

QUESTION: Is there a recommended way to display the line below [Intro], recognizing each chord letter, and note the repeat, so that everything can be transposed like the rest?

[Intro]
G  G/D  <--- this works
G  G/D  x4  <--- this does not work

[Verse 1]
G              Em            D                      C          G
Almost Heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River.

Please let me know any pointers, suggestions, corrections to my assumptions.
I love the program btw. It's very feature rich for my simple guitar tab needs.

[Zubersoft]

Text files can be a little hit-or-miss because MobileSheets has to guess at what is a chord line versus a line of lyrics. It uses a simple calculation where it requires that a certain number of characters be valid chords or it will consider it a line of lyrics instead. So when you are adding the x4, two parts are chords (G and G/D) and one part is not (x4) so that is not high enough for it to consider it a line of chords. If you had more chords on the line, then it would recognize it correctly. I can also update the parsing so that it ignores a phrase starting with x followed by a number. 

If you want this to all work more reliably, you should consider switching to chord pro. The chord pro specification provides a lot more functionality, and having chords inside of brackets ensures that MobileSheets can easily recognize them. There are online converters that can help automate the conversion as well.

Mike

[itsme]

Songpress can convert text files and provides a simple UI for editing ChordPro files
https://www.skeed.it/songpress
https://github.com/lallulli/songpress

[Jonk]

Try running your song through this formator first   http://ukegeeks.com/tools/

[sciurius]

QUESTION: Is there a recommended way to display the line below [Intro], recognizing each chord letter, and note the repeat, so that everything can be transposed like the rest?

[Intro]
G  G/D  <--- this works
G  G/D  x4  <--- this does not work

The easiest and straightforward way: use comments. ChordPro suppords chords in comments.

Code:

[Intro]
{comment: [G]  [G/D]  x4}

BTW I'm not sure what [intro] is supposed to mean. Is it a chord? Annotation? Comment?