Re: [Finale] Polychord Notation in Finale

[David H. Bailey]

Great explanation of a work around Chris!  Couldn't you simply enter the 
underscore as a smart-shape line?  You can define a custom line with 
exactly the thickness you want, and once in place you can drag it or 
edit it as you want for perfect length/placement in each instance, so 
that it would be longer to go under a chord such as Dm7b13 and shorter 
to go under a chord such as C.

Just a thought, since I haven't worked with polychords.

Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
[snip]
Alternately, if you are doing this regularly for the whole piece, you 
can enter TWO different chords on a note, with one positioned above the 
other, easily adjusted for the whole piece using baselines, then add in 
the underscore using the lyric tool, again adjusting the baseline, and 
making it as thick as you like by adjusting the font and size (I don't 
think you have an underscore in Jazz Text). If the upper structure never 
needs a suffix, then it may be better just to add the entire series of 
upper structures as lyrics with underscores in JazzText 24 (or whatever 
your size may be) and drag the baseline above the lower chord.

I found the underscore again too skinny, but adding a different verse, 
and making the underscore character alone in a different font worked out 
OK, as well as using one of the custom enclosures, which on the Mac are 
found under

opt D,
opt sh 8
opt E, then O
I'm sorry I don't know the Alt-number for PC, but you can look them up 
in teh Help menu under Jazz Character sets.
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David H. Bailey
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