> Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 12:33:14 +0100
> From: Christian Mondrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> > Does MusiXTeX provide a means of writing chord names above the bars in the
> > style of Jazz "Lead Sheets," as in the Real Book etc.
> 
> if by "lead sheet" is meant tablature style chord notation I guess this will
> be more than difficult. Letter style chords, however, should be possible to
> achieve. If you use M-Tx as your typesetting tool you may put chord symbols in
> uptexts, see the M-Tx documentation. Generally the MusiXTeX macro \zcharnote
> (applied as in-line MusixTeX within M-tx- and pmx sources) may be used to put
> any text anywhere. Some TeX formatting may be necessary to place chord
> definition digits in complicated jazz chords where you want them.

Tablatur style chord notation is provided by musixgui.tex. A short
description is in "musixdoc" - currently section 2.26.11, page 92(94).

This can be used as inline TeX with PMX and is possibly useable as
"U:"-ptext with M-tx, too.

-- Werner

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