https://github.com/kpeeters/gchords

a LaTeX package for typesetting guitar chord diagrams
https://github.com/kpeeters/gchords

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a LaTeX package for typesetting guitar chord diagrams

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/kpeeters/gchords
• Owner: kpeeters
• Created: 2023-08-09T08:48:30.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-08-09T09:23:37.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-16T01:28:03.637Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: guitar-chords, latex
• Language: TeX
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• Size: 212 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: ChangeLog

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README

        
GCHORDS

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a LaTeX package for typesetting guitar chord diagrams

by Kasper Peeters 

# Introduction

Guitar players often use a notation for chords that shows a part of

the fretboard, indicating in a graphical way which strings to press

and where. GCHORDS is a LaTeX package that draws these diagrams using

only LaTeX symbols (i.e. without using any postscript/pdf

specials). This is what it looks like: 

![sample chords](sample.png?raw=true "Sample chords")

There are many options to change the size, use numbered dots, combine

chords with lyrics and so on. See the manual for detailed

information. Available under the GNU General Public License.

# Description of files

The package consists of the following files:

* `gchords.sty`, the style file. 

* `ChangeLog` contains the list of changes.

* `gchords_doc.tex`, the documentation, also available as a pdf file

`gchords_doc.pdf`.

* `chordbox.tcl`, an optional TCL script by D.Lovell, to create chords

  interactively.

* `get2knowu.tex`, an example of how to typeset chords above lyrics

  (also available directly as a postscript file

  `get2knowu.pdf`). Thanks to Yotam Medini for contributing these

  examples.

# Other guitar chord typesetting software

If gchords is not what you are looking for, maybe one of these

programs can help:

* GuitarTeX [https://guitartex2.sourceforge.net/]

 

 Graphical tool in Perl/TK for creation of guitar song sheets and song

 books, including tablature and chord diagrams (the latter using

 postscript, will use gchords.sty in a future version).

 

* MUP [http://www.arkkra.com/]

 

 This program reads a text file with the description of music and

 outputs a postscript file. It has guitar chords added as an option,

 but I guess you can use that feature separately too. Does of course

 not mix with TeX as nicely as gchords, but the output looks good.

 

* MuseScore [https://musescore.org/en]

  

 A complete graphical music score typesetter.