Thanks Cristopher, if I get it well you went into the edit window and did it chord by chord manually modifying the size of sharps and flats? Jeez... It's fair that Makemusic did not take care about this. You have to have more than 10/10 of sight to read those small signs, especially in jazz clubs where lights are usually low :).
----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 5:17 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] FinWin 2k5b - how to change flats and sharps insidechords prefixes > > On 20-Feb-07, at 10:21 AM, Marcello Noia wrote: > > > I started a simple music sheet with default template, just melody > > and chords manually typed over the staff. > > In document options it is possible to change the size of fonts for > > almost every item but not for sharps and flats inside prefixes. > > Let's take suffix n. 52 (7flat5flat9) or 53 (7flat5sharp9). In the > > chord menu you can change the suffix fonts but not the accidentals > > along with them. Am I missing something? > > > > It seems TGTools cannot help on this side, too. > > I have changed all my suffixes so that the flat and sharp are > individual characters, not alterations added by the suffix editor, so > I can set the font, kerning and baseline as I like. This is only one > of many problems with the suffix editor, and the whole task took me > almost a week, partly because of the clunky and tiny edit window. > > Christopher > > BTW, I have a trick for resizing individual chord symbols without > changing every chord in the piece (sometimes you need this for lead > sheets when space is tight, as done in the New Real Book). > > Attach the chord symbol to a hidden rest in another layer, then use > the Zoom tool to click the rest and change it's size. The chord will > resize along with the hidden note. > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
