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From: esink@turia.dit.upm.es
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Put something above a word ?
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Date: 20 Mar 91 10:25:09 GMT
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I need a way, I don't care if it's TeX or LaTeX, to align combinations
of letters directly above or below each other.  I'm envisioning a
macro, but then I don't know a lot about TeX/LaTeX.

Something like this :

     T\above{D#}wist and S\above{G#}hout, s\above{C#}hout shout shout

should produce :

     D#        G#     C#
     Twist and Shout, shout shout shout

The purpose is to put music chord names above words of a song.  I need
the ability to put chord names of arbitrary length (G#min7 for example),
and the ability to put them at arbitrary places (ie in the middle of a
word).

My understanding of TeX is that it can do anything, so the question
should always be 'How can I do it ?' instead of 'Can I do it ?'...

So, How can I do this ?

Thanks in advance,

Eric
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