Multiple Chords for single words

[JosuaHaug]

A lyrics word might consist of multiple syllables of which each should be able to carry a chord symbol

[cgnieder]

How about something like this?

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{leadsheets}
\begin{document}

\begin{song}{title=My Song}
\begin{verse}
  ^*-{C}sy ^*{E}la ^{Ami}ble \\
  ^*-{C}sy ^*-{E}la ^-{Ami}ble \\
  ^*-{C}sy ---^*-{E}la ---^-{Ami}ble \\
  ^*-{C}sy --^*-{E}la --^-{Ami}ble
\end{verse}
\end{song}

\end{document}

[JosuaHaug]

That is a workaround I'm currently using.
However, I would prefer to just write

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{leadsheets}
\begin{document}
\begin{song}{title=My Song}
\begin{verse}
  ^{C}sy^{E}la^{Ami}ble \\
\end{verse}
\end{song}
\end{document}

and let the script take care of the correct typesetting.
Would that be a considerable feature?

[cgnieder]

That's actually not a workaround but how I intended the \chord macro (and its shortcut ^) to be used and the main reason for its starred variant. However, it might well be possible to improve the syntax. I'll try to think of something.

[JosuaHaug]

The songs-package (https://www.ctan.org/pkg/songs) does this quite well (see page 11 in the docu).

[cgnieder]

This would actually be quite easy if the chord were not centred above the syllable but were left-aligned… doing this and still centre the chord is much harder