Songtrix

You probably can if you print the Lyric sheet to a PDF file using something like the PDF Creator

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

Then you can open, select and copy the PDF with Acrobat Reader and paste it into something else.

Yes I can do this, but it takes a lot more key-strokes (=time) to save the pdf somewhere then open it again, not that I am lazy but I have a lot of conversions to do, I hope to have over 200 songs in the SongBook.

If you have microsoft office with OneNote installed you can use OneNote to capture any text on screen and have it converted to text onto the clipboard.  Start OneNote with the lyrcs window open first and select "CLIP" on the onenote ribbon. Now rubber band your lyrics  and right click the captured image .  Right clicking in the right place  on the dotted border of the text will show a  pop up window with the option "COPY TEXT FROM PICTURE". Select it.  Now the clipboard will contain the text and you can paste anywhere, Word for exampe.

There is a also very good screen capture program called Snagit which does all this on its own without OneNote.  It has a capture mode called IMAGE to TEXT which works well for me.  You can use it to capture lyrics and chords from the web when the option to copy and paste is not available.

I tried this, but copying from the PDF puts each event in a separate line, which is really unusable.

Ideally, in a future version, I'd like to have the ability to just export the lyrics (possibly as a text file?). Even better, import too :-)

It would depend on how you are wanting to use the lyric in another program.  But the idea of exporting simple text in lyric stanzas is worth considering, I have marked this for attention.

If you are looking for lyric export options in the meantime, you might also try midi export, lyrics are faithfully exported in midi meta events.

> It would depend on how you are wanting to use the lyric in another program.

Examples that come to mind:
- putting it in my website
- printing it in a CD sleeve/booklet
- posting it to some website for some form of peer review (e.g. a writing circle, or lang8 if writing in a foreign language)

Plain text has the hard-to-beat advantage of being supremely easy to handle, though :-) someone who can program (or write macros) can start from there and write scripts (or macros or whatever) to process it into any other form they could need. Also not especially hard to do by hand.