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[Carl <1064675@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Honestly, I don't understand how the SundayPlus format works. Looking at
the source of the .ptf (SundayPlus) files, there seems to be an #author,
#title, and #copyright field in the header. In most of our files, these
are empty strings "". A few have valid content, and others have a bunch
of encoded symbols with no visible meaning.

I have never added explicit copyright or author info to the files and
wasn't aware that it was possible. Apparently the SundayPlus format
allows this but I never noticed anywhere in the software to modify the
values and never saw any options to configure how they are displayed. We
have only ever added copyright and author details in a small font at the
end of the lyrics.

Much as I would like the importer to deal perfectly with *our* song
database, it's probably not representative of other former SundayPlus
users. I've imported a few more songs and they seem to work ok with
build bzr2088. A few have garbled titles (eg.
{\cr\loch\af1\dbch\af4\...) but the lyrics are there.

The current importer correctly deletes the line containing "CCLI licence
no ...." from the lyrics but it assumes the number is the CCLI number of
the song. In our case, it is actually our church's licence number, but
it's ambiguous so probably not worth changing the behaviour.

** Attachment added: "Example song with garbled title"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/openlp/+bug/1064675/+attachment/3399407/+files/As%20the%20deer%20pants%20for%20the%20water.ptf

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Title:
  SundayPlus importer could handle information better

Status in OpenLP - Worship Presentation Software:
  New

Bug description:
  The SundayPlus importer could handle Authors and copyrights better.
  In the sample files at http://support.openlp.org/issues/1223#change-2289 the "footer information" is only partially imported. The other information is left in the song as a slide.

  It shouldn't be too difficult, but would require a larger set of
  songs, as well as more work than we call a bug fix (for release of v2)

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