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Thanks! I'm sure inclusion of those two packages and the meanings thereof are basic knowledge to long-term LaTeX users, but I'm pretty new to the game, and had spent most of my font-related research trying to get the Japanese text working right, so I'm a real noob about English font usage in LaTeX ...

Any thoughts on this? I'm discovering additional problems that I think relate to those CM* fonts - they apparently use the limited original character set from the 1970's - for example, a simple ">" in my text comes out as an upside-down question mark, and replacing it with "\textgreater" results in ...

Sorry, you might not be able to run my MWE as is, unless you have uplatex (Japanese UTF-8 LaTeX flavor), but I'll give you as much supporting information as I can. MWE:
\documentclass{ujarticle}
\usepackage[uplatex]{otf}

\begin{document}
\sffamily % makes the ASCII sans-serif
\gtfamily % makes the ...

Thanks again! It took me a while to get back to working on this project, but now I tried the setspace package and your suggested code, and it works. (It's a bit of a delicate balance between the three interplaying values: "[value]\lyric{#2}", "\begin{spacing}{value}", and "\renewcommand ...

Thanks, Nicola. I found two files called texput.log, and only the one in /root/ was dated today. But it's a bit spooky, because the timestamp is while I was away from my computer for several hours!

Anyway, haunted servers aside, after quite a bit more research I found out what the problem was - the ...

I'm using PHP to build a .tex file and then run uplatex (like latex but for Unicode Japanese) and then dvipdfmx to create a PDF file from database data.

Generating the tex file is working beautifully - the resulting /tmp/mytempname.tex file can by run from the command line, while in the /tmp ...

I like that! I have only been working with TeX for about three weeks (and not full time), so I'm really green. Studying that code gave me a jump start on learning several things, including things I didn't ask about. For example, how did you know I was also struggling to get good-looking sharps and ...

Hmm, no thoughts on this? I especially have to solve Problem #1 before I can proceed with my project, so I hope someone has some insight.

I'm trying to use LaTeX (well, technically upLaTeX, but that shouldn't matter for this question) to create song sheets with chords above the lyrics (I'll be generating the tex files programatically from a database). I'm using little {tabular} pieces inline to line up the chords, and as much as ...