GUITAR TABLATURES MANUAL
They look something like the following excerpt from the manual which is not perfect but close enough: This is well enough for my purposes, anyway: after having written the package I rarely used it because I didn’t need it except for one or two lead sheets. It works but has of course limitations due to the unfinished and thus incomplete font: I used one of these fonts, New Real Book, and wrote me a little package, realbookchords, for typesetting chord symbols with this font. There are a free but unmaintained and unfinished fonts, though: Jochen Pietsch’s Jazz Fonts. However, most notations are faster done by hand so I am still not sure if I want to purchase the professional Jazz Font that is (or can be) used with Finale, for example. One might argue that (La)TeX isn’t the right task for this, anyway, but LaTeX’s part of the fun, isn’t it? And since jazz chords are rather unique in the way they and their alterations are written having the right font helps a lot to typeset lead sheets. In the Real Book they have their own font for chord symbols resembling the early hand-written Real and Fake Books.
In jazz - and especially for a rhythm guitar player - chords are much more important. I don’t play much classical guitar any more but am concentrating on jazz. This is why there is my rather badly maintained musixguit package. And there is no such hobby that it cannot be combined with LaTeX. Some of you already know that I like to play the guitar in my spare time.
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