A simple way to place chords over text is to fill in the blanks with ~~~ characters.
        On my screen, Amos's example shows the comma under F, "dlium" under AM, and "day" half way between AM and G. Tildes do not a fixed-pitch font make. Sorry.

        I like JiB's suggested format. It's an easy way to post chords, especially if lyrics have already been posted. I've one question: whether to add a hyphen before the chord in a split word (e.g. to- [D]gether) or not (e.g. to [D]gether)? I'd hate to clutter harvested lyrics with stray hyphens.

        On the other hand, Jim, searching for songs is an important part of the Mudcat for me too. It's hard enough choosing a search phrase unlikely to be misspelled or interrupted by punctuation, without guessing which [G7]chords may punctu- [D]ate the words in my search string.
        Posting twice does seem a little wasteful, but anyone can do it, without learning ABC and HTML. At least we'd only have to do it for songs that aren't already posted elsewhere in the Forum. But I guess I'd better learn ABC after all. Then I can link both chords and tune to lyrics at one go.

Maureen