Better way to write chords in a score

Dorico
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Hello all,
I’m writing leadsheets for my band but all we need are chords.
My endgoal would be to get a score without staves, and have all my chords inside bars.

Is it currently possible ? because the way I’m doing now is ugly. I could use a percussion instrument and use the 1 line staff but that would be yet an other workaround to use :confused:

https://puu.sh/HTTmH/3bbf72bd8f.png

I’ll add that I need to be able to input some fermattas above those chords and it’s not possible as well…

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I have read I don’t know how many Jazz Guitar parts that look EXACTLY like that. :slight_smile: But I get you have your reasons.

Try a search for Lead sheets first - I have read some more comprehensive answers on the forum here. There will be something of a work around as not having ANY staves doesn’t compute well for Dorico at present.

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I’m not at my computer at the moment, but if you are willing to hack your instruments.xml file you can accomplish this with a 0-line staff. I posted a few images and walkthroughs back in this thread.

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Thanks, I guess that will do for now until Dorico has a more user friendly way to do that.

It’s time they add a chord track in dorico as well :d

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There already is a chord track.

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Indeed there is, but there is no way to print it, unless I’m missing a key feature