With lots of help from Bob Tennent, I've developed a package of TeX macros and fonts that enable MusiXTeX to produce scores that look like a jazz fake book. Once installed, if you input musixjaz.tex into your MusiXTeX source file, most text and symbols will automagically appear in a special font, and you'll easily be able to add chord symbols in one of 3 selectable sizes using a convenient set of macros. (One thing I haven't done, and will leave to the real TeXperts, is to make the noteheads, stems, flags, and beams appear in the jazz font).
Here's a direct link to an example: http://icking-music-archive.org/software/musixjazz/doc/Sis6teensj.pdf All you need is in one of the two zip's at http://icking-music-archive.org/software/musixjazz/ To install, you can either manually install the files in the tex, type1, tfm, map and doc directories (from musixjazz.zip) into a personal or local texmf tree as described here http://icking-music-archive.org/software/htdocs/Beyond_Basics.html#SECTION00 033000000000000000 , or just unzip musixjazz.tds.zip at the root of a personal or local texmf tree. In either case, after refreshing the file-name database, you must enable the font-map file musixjazz.map as described further down in the above link. Once installed, usage is explained in detail in musixjazzdoc.pdf in the doc folder. --Don Simons ------------------------------- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
