I am trying to figure out several things with regards to Chords:
- I would like to have all the chords change to a different color than black Globally - is there a way to do this to all chords globally rather than one at a time
- I am programming some of my chord symbols - for instance - I like C9sus (rather than 7 sus4sus9. ) I have programmed one with all in Blue. When I enter that with B9sus, the B shows in black instead of Blue. Any way to make those changes global?
- For CMaj7, I have used the delta sign for 20+ years, I would love to program my own keystrokes for entering that. With Finale it would be Cy7 (the y symbol would show up with a Delta). Any way to program my own keystrokes for those symbols for Major, half diminished and Diminished symbols?
Thanks in advance.
For at least part 3 of your question, just go to engraving options → chord symbols → chord quality and there should be an option to change the default.
Are you referring to Engrave > Library > Chord Symbols
I have a Enter a Chord Symbol with + sign. I tried entering Cy7 (to program as CMaj7) and nothing happens. CM7 shows up as C7. Wanting to be able to define what I type and define how the chord is played back.
No, just enter cma7. That will store the chord that us known universally as C-D-G-B, but displayed many different ways. With Dorico, the display or presentation is its own layer. The options control how it will be displayed. But you enter it simply as cma7.
If later you decide you prefer the Merklee style or the Real Book style, you simply chance the option and everything appears in the selected nomenclature convention. But it is stored internally in Dorico as a “C major seventh” chord, regardless of how it will ultimately be presented.
I just wanted to save keystrokes instead of CMAJ7 - enter Cy7. Also for Half diminished - have to type Chalfdim - would love a quicker shortcut key that recognizes it as that.
I looked them up in the manual and just learned that we can type
^7 or just ^ for maj7 and hd for ø.
Thank you Mark - that is helpful
Does anyone know how to change chord colors globally?
I don’t think you can change them globally, because they’re Font Styles, not Paragraph Styles. Font Styles are a little more limited in their customization.
It seems that I can change D7 to show in color, but I have to select the “D” and the “7” individually to do that and for every other 7 chord I need to do the same. I would love to request this feature. Also finding that my edits on D7/F# (over chords) - the changes to the over chords are not being retained.
I just tried this and I think it does what you’re after. In Write mode, Galley View (there’s a button to switch to Galley view at the bottom right). Select the first chord in a piece, then select more (ctrl-shift-A). In Galley view that will select all chords. Go to the properties panel (Ctrl-8), select the color button at the left side, select the color and all the chords, including extensions and numbers are that color.
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That worked . . .
Thank you very much for that info James. On to the next issue
Transplant from Finale to Dorico 5.
That technique appeared to work, although when selecting “all” nothing was highlighted, but did change when I changed the color. I have saved the post in my own "Dorico help word file, for my use w/ future tunes. Many thanks.
Now, is it possible to change the font (to Verdana) and style (to bold), globally, or even individually? Using the normal method for editing chord symbols does not work (at least for me).
Thank you,
BobCates
Welcome to the forum, Bob. You can change the font used for chord symbols by going to Library > Font Styles, selecting Chord Symbols Font, and then choosing your desired font and style.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Have created new symbols font, have changed to Verdana, size did not increase as changed in the “Edit Font Styles” window.
Some, but not all, changed to desired red color. Examples from previous Finale work, attached.
Thanks,
BobCates
Can you attach a Dorico project in which you’ve made the change, Bob, so I can see what’s going on?