virzen / yaguitar

Yet another TeX style for guitar chords

yaguitar

Yet another TeX style for guitar chords

Motivation

The main goal is to make song typing as simple as possible. Also using international characters is mandatory.

Using yaguitar

Yaguitar style works in both - plainTeX and LaTeX

Commands

\chord

\chordScheme

\ukeChordScheme

Guitar environment

Yaguitar defines new environment guitar. In LaTex use

\begin{guitar}
\end{guitar}

In plainTeX use

\guitarOn
\guitarOff

Inside guitar environment some characters are active (square bracket, pipe, space and new line). This allows stretch text under chords when it is needed.

\begin{guitar}
[Ami]Lorem [C]ipsum do[G]lor sit amet,
con[C]secte[C#]tuer adipiscing elit.
Etiam quis qu[Cmi]am. [Cbmi]Maecenas [Hmi]lorem.
|: [Ami]Etiam dui sem, [D#dim]fer[Ddim]men[Dbdim]tum vitae, :|
sagit[C#mi7/5]tis id, [D]malesuada in, quam. In convallis.
\end{guitar}