Yup, different libraries is the way to go. My first one took me a week, my second took me most of the day. Huge pain. Plus, there is a long-standing bug where if you import a Jazz library into a Maestro document, the parentheses end up being Maestro instead of Jazz, which have a different baseline so that they are too low. Good luck.
Oh, and there is STILL no way to get just a few chords into a different size. You can have different SUFFIXES, but for the name of the chord (like Eb in an Ebmaj7 chord) it is fixed for the entire document. Sometimes I have very dense measures that I would like to compress a bit, but easy way to do it. Christopher > On Jan 23, 2016, at 1:13 PM, Haroldo Mauro <hma...@hmauro.com> wrote: > > Thanks for replying. I agree it is a huge lack. I will mention it to tech > support. The plugin would be a solution for me, since what I usually need is > to resize changes for the whole document/instruments. To resize one or two > chords once in a while would be easy just to edit the chord itself or create > a new one in the Chord Definition window, with different size fonts and > positioning. Now, I have this custom library of chords, created over the > years, which I like, but the fonts are kind of small for some players to read > at a distance, so I want to increase the whole library for the new parts I > write in the future. I hate to think I will need to edit the chords one by > one. With Data Check->Change Fonts I run into the same problem. The fonts > increase in size, but not the spacing. > Harold > > On 23/01/2016, at 15:29, Christopher Smith wrote: > >> No, and this is a HUGE hairy lack in the program right now. Please write >> tech support and complain about this. It is supposed to be something that >> computers do easily, yet there is no way to do it ever since chords started >> attaching to measures instead of items. In the past, you could attach a >> chord to a hidden item in another layer and resize the item, causing the >> chord to resize as well, but that functionality was removed. >> >> The only kludge I know of is to have another staff with everything hidden >> except chords, and resize the staff. You would include the special staff in >> the part where you needed it. Obviously, if you have several instruments >> needing resized chords, you would need a different extra staff for EVERY >> instrument, unless everything you put in the piano you also put in the >> guitar and bass part, and of course don’t forget instruments that need >> changes for improvisation. Urg. >> >> Jari Williamsson said he was working on an edit to his Change plugin to >> allow kerning to be preserved for chord suffixes, which would be great, >> except there would STLL be no easy way to resize just a couple of chords. >> >> Christopher >> >> >>> On Jan 23, 2016, at 4:41 AM, Haroldo Mauro <hma...@hmauro.com> wrote: >>> >>> Is there a plugin, or any other way, to add space among chord symbol suffix >>> items globally and proportionally, when increasing chord symbols size >>> through menu Utilities->Change->Chords? These items will collide when >>> increased by a large percentage, so the idea is that the space among these >>> items increase by the same percentage. >>> Harold >>> Fin2014d Mac Lion >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Finale mailing list >>> Finale@shsu.edu >>> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >>> >>> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >>> finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> Finale@shsu.edu >> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >> finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
