I’m not sure you’re doing anything wrong. Unfortunately, that editing window is a bit buggy so it’s not actually WYSIWYG. Sometimes you need to make it “wrong” in Edit Chord Symbol Component window so it appears correctly in the Project Default Chord Symbol Appearances window, which is the window that is reflected in the score.
I’ve found changing the Attachment point can make this more accurate though. The Attachment point defaults to Bottom Right / Bottom Left. If you left those as default, try changing the attachment points to Baseline Right / Baseline Left, and I suspect you’ll get better results:
While I’m here in the chord symbols weirdness space, I was trying to work out why the slash chords are different when there’s an accidental in the bass note, like here:
(I’d transposed a chart and the slash chords with the # in them, the bass note moves down, I’m assming because dorico thinks that there’s a clash)
Which led me to try and see if the b symbol was causing the same issue. Doing this bought up a strange one… As you can see, the # and the b are very different sizes and changing the chord symbols music text font only changes the size of the b and the /, not the #.
‘Aha!’ thinks I, ‘I must have an overide for the # symbol in the default appearance dialogue’
Not so. So now I’m at a loss as to why the # symbol is not able to be resized…
Happy to put up a version of the project, see if that sheds any light…
Yeah, we’ll definitely need to see a file for that. I’m almost certain there’s an override to those affected glyphs, even if you subsequently deleted any override for those specific chords.
I couldn’t find any overrides anywhere but then I solved it by changing fonts (don’t ask me why that worked…) and then accidentally overwrote the original file… (Damn safety saving instinct…)
So, the only little issue left is the way (if possible) to stop the slashes being so sensitive to the accidentals (either in the bottom of top of the slash).