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- From: crath@BNR.CA (Christopher Rath)
- Subject: Re: Chords and alignments
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.161939.25566@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
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- References: <7460334@MVB.SAIC.COM>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 16:19:39 GMT
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- In article <7460334@MVB.SAIC.COM>, "Daniel H. Luecking"
- <DL24794@UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU> writes:
- [...stuff deleted...]
- |>
- |> There was a post (possibly to comp.text.tex) a few weeks ago asking
- |> how to put guitar chords above the words in a song listing. The
- |> only response I've was a songbook.sty posted. This seemed like
- |> overkill for a simple prroblem andm moreover, not helpful for plain
- |> TeX users. I submit the following:
- |>
- |> \def\chord#1{\raise 10 pt\rlap{#1}}
- |>
- |> Place it immediately before the syllable where the chord change
- |> takes place with no space. This will mess up the even line spacing
- |> unless \advance\baselineskip by 10pt precedes the song. The
- |> dimension 10pt in both settings should be adjusted for best visual
- |> effect, but probably should be the same in both places.
- |>
- [...stuff deleted...]
- |>
- |> Dan Luecking
-
- I posted the songbook.sty. For plain TeX users the following macro
- can be extracted from the style and used:
-
- %
- % \Ch - Chord over lyrics macro definition.
- % Paramaters:
- % [1] Chord.
- % [2] Syllable that chord is to be left justified over.
- %
- \newcommand{\Ch}[2]{\leavevmode\vbox{\hbox{\strut\bf\sf{#1}}\hbox{#2\strut}}}
-
-
- This may be rewritten for plain TeX as:
-
- \def\Ch#2{\leavevmode\vbox{\hbox{#1\strut}\hbox{#2\strut}}}
-
-
- While I have not tested this plain TeX macro, I believe that you will
- find this macro produces a more pleasing effect than the one you
- suggested.
-
- Have fun,
- Christopher
-
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