jefnic23 / recital-program-maker

Create neatly formatted recital programs quickly and easily

Recital Program Maker

I find formatting recital programs in word processors to be tedious, even with pre-formatted templates. Things still never line up quite perfectly after extensive tweaking anyways. So, I created this app to take care of all that busy work. The idea is: enter all the information for your recital and it will spit out a perfectly formatted program. No tweaking margins, spacing, or anything!

Supported browsers: Chrome, Firefox

New features

• Highlight subtitle text to add bold, italic, and underline
• Hover over program entries for options to move, edit, and delete
• Toggle "Place performer(s) on top" to swap the positions of performers and pieces

How-To

Upload a spreadsheet

• grab the template from this link
• there is an example tab at the bottom showing how to fill out the template
• copy the template to your Google drive, or download a copy to your device
• make sure to download it as a .tsv file
• when you're ready, save the completed template (as a .tsv file) and click the upload button on the site
• when you load the file, the program will fill automatically

Bugs

• There is an issue with the way the program looks on smaller devices. This is being worked on, but programs will still print properly formatted (you can use "Preview" to confirm this). It's also worth noting that "Preview" tends to slightly distort the image, but when you click "Print" you'll get a perfectly clear representation of the final product.

• While it's possible to adjust the program order within a page, moving a performer to a different page breaks the print functionality and is thus disabled. If you need to swap the positions of performers that are on different pages, edit the entries instead and reenter their information in their new positions.

• If you notice any issues or have any problems, please reach out to me! Or if you're saavy enough, you can make a pull request.

TO DO

• Edit entries
• Provide option for placing student name above piece/composer
• Fix long titles (reduce font size if width > 450)
• Adjust performance section height if only 1 or 2 performances bleed over into next page
• Add help section (basic usage, etc.)
• Add more horizontal line styles
• Mobile compatibility
• Implement dropzone
• Toggle page visibility
• Cookies for saving programs?