"M. Chapman" wrote:
>
> I'm a relatively new LaTeX user and was excited to find out about TeX's
> music notating capabilities. I've read some of the documentation supplied
> with MusicTeX, but before I go any further learning a given package, I'd
> like to ask you experienced folk a question or two.
>
> My main interest in typesetting music is for the guitar and voice. As many
> of you are no doubt aware, music written for guitar is only useful to a
> large number of guitarists if it is provided in tablature. Tablature is a
> notational system for those with insufficient classical music training,
> wherein a six-lined staff system that replaces notes with numbers is
> employed, in order to directly represent the notes as fingering positions on
> the guitar fretboard. In most publications this six-lined staff is attached
> below a treble staff with standard notation. My questions:
>
> 1) Does anyone out there use or are any of you aware of someone who uses TeX
> to create such standard/tablature notational mix?
>
> 2) If so, which program (MusicTeX, MuTeX, etc., or perhaps a specific
> package?) is best to use?
>
> 3) If not, what tricks could be used to create the six-lined staff, or might
> I be better off purchasing a tablature software?
>
Sometime ago a similar question was raised. Here is my slightly revised
proposal for - to a certain degree - meet demands for a guitar tablature
with mtx/pmx:
Meter: C
MyStyle: Voices V1,V2 V3; Choral; Clefs G8 G
Style: MyStyle
Space: 2 0
%% \def\gf#1#2{\lower 1\internote\hbox{\zcharnote{#1}{#2}}}
%% \\setlines{1}{6}\setsize{1}\largevalue\setclefsymbol1\empty\
e4 g b e |
rpb |
U: @+2 Em C G C
\gf42\ r4b \gf60\ rb \gf80\ rb \gf{10}0\ rb |
d c b ds |
rpb |
U: G Am Em B7
\gf83\ rb \gf81\ rb \gf80\ rb \gf84\ rb |
e0 zb zg
e0-
U: Em
\gf{10}0\gf80\gf60\gf00\ rb0
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