Guitar Tab to LaTeX Converter

Formatting songbooks in LaTeX is traditionally a tedious process of manually inserting chord macros into lines of text. This tool automates the alignment of chords and lyrics by analyzing the spatial relationship between lines in raw text tabs.

The engine utilizes a position-based parsing algorithm. It detects lines containing musical notation (e.g., Am7, G/B) and merges them into the subsequent lyric line using standard LaTeX song packages syntax (like songs or custom macros). This eliminates the risk of misalignment during compilation and saves hours of manual copy-pasting.

Note: The tool assumes a standard monospaced text format where chords are positioned above the lyrics. It automatically handles LaTeX character escaping (e.g., converting & to \&) to ensure your document compiles without errors.

The merger algorithm calculates the insertion point i of a chord based on its visual index in the raw text line.

Where i_k represents the character index of the k-th chord. If the lyric line is shorter than the chord position, the system appends the chord as a trailing entry.