On Jul 25, 2004, at 11:23 AM, Crystal Premo wrote:
My client would like me to change the chord font size to something a bit larger. What is the best way to do this? I've used "Select Default Font", but it doesn't seem to get the deltas in the suffixes.
Oh, crap. He WOULD have to ask for the pickiest thing to change in Finale. Changing Default Font only changes NEW items you create, it doesn't change already existing items. You will have to do a Swap Font, changing JazzCord 14 (or whatever it is now) to JazzCord 16, or something larger. Problem is, the kerning in chord suffixes is manual, so making the font larger will mush everything together if you have more than one character in a suffix. Fortunately, most of the included JazzCord chord suffixes are one glyph only, so this won't be a problem with THOSE ones. But, I suspect you have a whole bunch of suffixes in different fonts, and if you change THOSE fonts, then EVERY instance of that font will change, including any text expressions or titles that may contain that font and size.
Try the Swap Font command on a copy of the file, so you can avoid screwing things up too badly. Check the suffixes, and re-space the ones that got mushed up, and manually change font size and spacing in the ones that use JazzText. In one lead sheet you shouldn't have too many different suffices anyway.
If you have to perform this over a bunch of different files, then you are in for a job. Charge by the hour is my advice. The client should know beforehand that you charge for changes, and what it will entail. An easier approach in the case of several files is to create the new larger suffices, save them as a library, import the library into each file, then delete the smaller suffices in the Chord Suffix Editor, replacing them with the newly loaded ones when the dialogue box comes up asking you what you want to do.
If the tunes are simple, then this might be simpler: erase the chords from the file using MassEdit>Erase, copy the music to a NEW default file with larger suffices, then re-enter the chords. In any case, you will probably have to create new chord suffixes. I spent a lot of time trying to get mine right, and now I don't like them any more. 8-(
Christopher
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