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From: form@pyuxe.UUCP (thomas a rowe)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Put something above a word ?
Summary: My solution to the problem.
Message-ID: <1139@pyuxe.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 91 14:40:31 GMT
References: <1991Mar20.102509.7980@dit.upm.es> <18749@milton.u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: form@pyuxe.UUCP (71133-Christopher Rath)
Organization: Bell Communications Research
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I've just been writing a set of macros to produce a songbook (lyrics and
chords).  The macro to place chords above lyrics is (in LaTeX notation):

	\newcommand{\Ch}[2]{\vbox{\hbox{ }\hbox{bf{#1}}\hbox{#2}}}

	Paramater:  1 - chord to be set;
		    2 - sylable over which chord is to be right justified.

The rationale behind the macro is:  A chord is normally attached to a syllable
or syllables.  A chords placement has musical/timing significance.  Hence the
design.  I force the chords bold so that they're more easily read.

As it stands the macro has one bug:  When the macro is the first character in
a paragraph, it forces a newline after the syllable.

Christopher Rath
613-594-3026