At 12:30 PM +0000 11/10/02, Patsy Moore wrote:
In message <f05100302b9f398864223@[24.203.60.147]>, Christopher BJ Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes in response to Giz Bowe:Here is what I do to avoid those nasty pileups when I have four chords in a bar and they are Am7(b5)/D, D13(b9#11), Abm7(b5)/Db, Db13(b9#11) heaven help us all.I've never used the chord system but I wonder if it has any equivalent to writing different verses in lyrics. On the odd occasion when I need to write a figured bass I enter the figures nearest the staff as verse 1, etc., using enough verses to cope with the maximum number of figures under the same note. If I were entering your example above as lyrics I think I would enter the first and third chords as verse 1 and the second and fourth as verse 2. That would mean they could overlap and I could move the notes as close together as clarity of reading would allow - it would reduce the necessary width by perhaps a third.
Yes, you can manually drag individual chord symbols higher or lower. I try to avoid that if at all possible, as all chords should be on the same horizontal plane, just like lyrics are supposed to be.
I do have a gripe with the lyric tool (sometimes more than one!). If I want to write a letter and a flat, natural or sharp sign as if they were one "word" they don't have the same base line. Is there a good way to remedy that? I know one or two work-rounds.
I use the Bach font on my Mac, which has all these symbols in a font style that resembles Times. Since I can't remember all the keystrokes for the symbols, I have a text file with them already typed in, and I cut and paste from that file to wherever I need them.
Christopher
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