You can change the letters to be SMALLER easily enough, and THEN
resize the whole deal to be BIGGER with my method, so as to make the
alterations bigger by comparison.
But for long-term solution, you will have to do as I did, and redo
all your default suffixes.
There IS a library in JazzCord with custom suffixes put together by
some long-suffering dude, who used Jazz (not JazzCord!) for the
alterations, and adjusted all the baselines and sizes. It is fairly
usable, but it has to be loaded into a JazzFont document, not a
Maestro document, because the parentheses get messed up for some
reason that I can't fathom.
Christopher
On Feb 21, 2007, at 10:38 AM, themark wrote:
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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