GuitarTeX

Joachim Miltz

GuitarTeX is a tool for guitarists who want to print good looking and easy to play song sheets or song books from their chord or chordpro files. It uses the well known chord format with several extensions. The program was developed on a Linux system, but it should run on any other Unix system with a Perl/TK environment. See the Section called Installing in Chapter 2 for installing instructions and the Section called Requirements in Chapter 2 for further requirements.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Installation
How to obtain GuitarTeX
Requirements
Installing
Configuration file
3. Using the text filter gtx2tex
gtx2tex -- converting chord files into TeX, postscript or PDF format
4. Using the GuitarTeX editor
Starting
Menus
File Menu
Edit Menu
Directives Menu
Songbook Menu
Colors Menu
Transpose Menu
Chord Icons
Syntax Highlighting
5. Supplied Chord directives
Special Characters
Page Layout
Layout Dimensions
Option List
Examples
Document Structure
title
subtitle
sob, eob
soc, eoc
soi, eoi
np
sot, eot
Fonts
font_size
color_xxx
Creating a Songbook
document_class
book_title, book_author, book_date
chapter
include
even
Guitar and Bass Tablatures
Examples
Others
define
comment
margin
second
6. Using LaTeX commands and packages
Latex commands
LaTeX packages MusixTeX, MusixLyr and TabDefs
Examples
7. Screenshots and examples
Main window
Song sheets
Chord table
Indexpage
8. Related links
Contacts
Links
LaTeX
Perl
Guitar Sites
A. Acknowledgements
List of Tables
2-1. Configuration parameters
5-1. Options for geometry directive
List of Figures
1-1. Print output from example file
4-1. Icons to create LaTeX, postscript or PDF output
4-2. Color selector
4-3. Chord icons
4-4. Syntax Highlighting Icon
5-1. Tablature icons
5-2. Chord example
7-1. Main window
List of Examples
5-1. Directive title
5-2. Directive subtitle
5-3. Directive sob, eob (from Here, There And Everywhere, Beatles):
5-4. Directive soc, eoc (from With A Litle Help From My Friends, Beatles):
5-5. Directive np
5-6. Directive sot, eot (from Pretty Woman, Roy Orbison):
5-7. Directive font_size
5-8. Directive color_chorus (coloring the chorus light blue):
5-9. Directive document_class
5-10. Directive book_title, book_author, book_date
5-11. Directive chapter
5-12. Directive include
5-13. Directive even
5-14. Empty guitar tablature
5-15. A bass tab with some text
5-16. Typesetting notes, bars and extra spaces
5-17. Putting text under the notes
5-18. A simple bass tab
5-19. Chords
5-20. Directive define
5-21. Directive comment
5-22. Directive margin
5-23. Directive second (from Help!, The Beatles)
6-1. LaTeX command in chord file
6-2. LaTeX command to be placed in the preamble
6-3. MusixTeX
6-4. Metronomic indication
6-5. Enhanced lyrics typesetting with MusixLyr
7-1. Single song sheet
7-2. Song sheet as part of a songbook
7-3. Chord table