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In article <7460334@MVB.SAIC.COM>, "Daniel H. Luecking"
<DL24794@UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU> writes:
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|> 
|> 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.
|> 
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|> 
|> 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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