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In article <6595@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>, lukeh@tekig1.PEN.TEK.COM (Luke James Hornof) writes:
|> I'm looking for a macro package which will easily enable me to put the names
|> of simple guitar chords over words of song lyrics.
|>
|> For example, I would like the output to look like this:
|>
|> C              G            Am                  F
|> Met her at the Burger King, fell in love over a Pepsi
|>
|>
|> Right now I'm getting the job done with the tabbing environment, but it makes
|> the input quite unreadable, and is a pain to do:
|>
|> Met her at the \= Burger King, \= fell in love over a \=Pepsi \kill
|> C \> G \> Am \> F  \\*
|> Met her at the Burger King, fell in love over a Pepsi  \\*
|>
|> Ideally, the input would look something like this:
|>
|> \ch{C}Met her at the \ch{G}Burger King, \ch{Am}fell in love over a \ch{F}Pepsi

Put this where you use to place your macro definitions:
    \def\ch#1#2{\vbox{\hbox{#1}\hbox{#2}}} % Guitar chords


Make the input look like this:
    \ch{C}{Met} her at the \ch{G}{Burger} King,
                    \ch{Am}{fell} in love over a \ch{F}{Pepsi}

This is still a bit difficult to read but it is better than with the
tabbing environment.  You could also have a look at gloss.tex in
Marcel van der Goot's ``Midnight Macros'' package.
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