# +Add feature "lines per slide"

**URL:** <https://quelea.discourse.group/t/add-feature-lines-per-slide/749>\
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**Created:** [December 9, 2021, 4:48pm UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/add-feature-lines-per-slide/749 "2021-12-09T16:48:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![JamesLovell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dec6dc/32.png) [@JamesLovell](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/JamesLovell)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 4:48pm UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/add-feature-lines-per-slide/749/1 "2021-12-09T16:48:23Z")

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Hello, I’d like to say thank you because of your efforts to bring the better software alternative than openlp. The features are great especially the video background which I have been looking for a long time after I switched to linux. Now, I am requesting to add this feature on your future updates because a lot of people in my church have hard time to read due to old age. In the current stable version of Quelea 2021.0 I’m using, I’ve noticed that when I display longer texts, the font size automatically shrinks which is not good for those people who can’t read small font sizes ☹ Please I hope you’ll hear my suggestion about this feature “lines per slide” or maybe “words per slide” which I’ve seen from openlp, this feature will:

•Separate the long paragraph into two or more depending on the number of lines/words per slide set by the user.  
•It will help retain the font size bigger even when you display the longest verse in the bible Esther 8:9.

That’s all, if you don’t understand what I mean, or if you have something to say, please reply, thanks and God Bless You!

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**Author:** ![sdthompson62448](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/quelea.discourse.group/sdthompson62448/32/199_2.png) [@sdthompson62448](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/sdthompson62448)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 7:48pm UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/add-feature-lines-per-slide/749/2 "2021-12-15T19:48:01Z")

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When I display text in Quelea I check the display of each screen and then edit the text, inserting line returns where appropriate. Note that it takes only one verse of a song with too many lines to cause an entire song to display with fonts that are too small. So, I simply edit each song that has fonts that are too small. For example, I found that a maximum of six lines per verse (or screen) produces fonts that are perfectly readable. So any song that has a verse with more than six lines gets edited. All I have to do is insert a carriage return in any verse that has too many lines. That’s my simple fix to the situation. I’m afraid that a programing ‘fix’ as suggested would be pretty involved if not impracticable.