Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:53:41AM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Kent West wrote: (Off-Topic because this is really a LaTeX question rather than a Debian question.) Not an offtopic question. You are using Debian, so this is relevant IMHO. Great, I have a bad case of flatulence.

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-17 Thread Kent West
Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:53:41AM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Kent West wrote: (Off-Topic because this is really a LaTeX question rather than a Debian question.) Not an offtopic question. You are using Debian, so this is relevant IMHO.

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 22:23:48 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:53:41AM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Kent West wrote: (Off-Topic because this is really a LaTeX question rather than a Debian question.) Not an offtopic question. You are using

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kent West: What I'm concerned about is the chord names (A, D, etc) need to line up with the word where the chords change, which means exact placement will be necessary. I currently do this in OO.o with a monospace font and manually spacing over to where the chord name goes. I am sure this

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-15 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Kent West wrote: (Off-Topic because this is really a LaTeX question rather than a Debian question.) Verse 1 A I wanna make you smile Bm Whenever you're sad C#m Carry you around D When your arthritis is bad A E All I wanna do is D

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-15 Thread Kent West
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Kent West wrote: What I'm concerned about is the chord names (A, D, etc) need to line up with the word where the chords change, which means exact placement will be necessary. ---LaTeX-File--- \documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article} \newlength{\chordlength}

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-15 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Kent West wrote: (Off-Topic because this is really a LaTeX question rather than a Debian question.) Not an offtopic question. You are using Debian, so this is relevant IMHO. I've been using OpenOffice.org to produce paper copies of songs written for guitar, but with all the talk about

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:12:55 -0600, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: (Off-Topic because this is really a LaTeX question rather than a Debian question.) I've been using OpenOffice.org to produce paper copies of songs written for guitar, but with all the talk about LaTeX on this list

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kent West wrote: (Off-Topic because this is really a LaTeX question rather than a Debian question.) I've been using OpenOffice.org to produce paper copies of songs written for guitar, but with all the talk about LaTeX on this list lately, I got to wondering if it might be a better product.

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-15 Thread Kent West
Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:12:55 -0600, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The material looks like standard guitar tabs you'd find on the web, like this, from http://www.guitaretab.com/a/adam-sandler/211.html: Package: musixtex Description: Typeset music scores with

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-15 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Hi, havnt been following this thread, just jumping in. This link has some samples of musixtex that you could perhaps use to get yourself familiar with it. Else use something like noteedit to edit your music and if you want, then you can export your music to musixtex. HTH Oli Þann 2007-02-15,

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kent West: Looks promising, but the learning curve appears to be a right-angle. From page 2 of the manual: If you are not familiar with TEX at all I would recommend to find another software package to do musical typesetting. Setting up TEX and MusiXTEX on your machine and mastering it is

OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-14 Thread Kent West
(Off-Topic because this is really a LaTeX question rather than a Debian question.) I've been using OpenOffice.org to produce paper copies of songs written for guitar, but with all the talk about LaTeX on this list lately, I got to wondering if it might be a better product. The material looks