You're right but the size of sharps and flats in the suffixes is so small
that also resizing to 120% one could have big letters and numbers for root
and scale (7,6,9 etc) and still little symbols for # and b. :(


> Marcello,
>
> I agree that this ought to be much easier.
>
> But you can kludge changing ALL the chords this way:
>
> Create a new staff, hide everything except attached elements, enter
> rests to attach the chords to, and resize the hidden staff to 120% or
> so. Drag it over the normal-sized staff so that it appears that the
> bigger chords are attached to the smaller staff.
>
> Christopher
>
>
> On Feb 21, 2007, at 3:29 AM, Marcello Noia wrote:
>
> >
> > 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.
> >>
> >>
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