🚀 go-pugleaf

I will be going NOMAIL for a few weeks so I thought I would clear up
some backlog all in one go.

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.


Two postings in the past few months asked about alignments of the following

          ------------------------
          |          |  Entry 1  |
          |  Entry 2 +-----------+
          |          |  Entry 3  |
          ------------------------

Where Entry 2 is aligned with the rule separating Entries 1 and 3.
I sent my own humble solutions to both posters, but would now like to
recant them and state that I think the is one of the few situations I
have encountered where \valign is actually the best way to do it. I do
not have the time to debug it, but the following may work:

\valign{\hbox{\vrule height .4pt width 7 em#}&\hbox{\quad#\quad}&
 \hbox{\vrule height .4pt width7 em#}& \hbox{\quad#\quad}&
  \hbox{\vrule height .4pt width 7em#}\cr
\noalign{\vrule}
&\multispan3\vfill\hbox{\quad Entry 2\quad}\vfill&\cr
\noalign{\vrule}
&Entry 1&&Entry 3&\cr
\noalign{\vrule}}

Dan Luecking