Chord Symbol Design Edits

[FredGUnn]

I wrote a doricolib file that can help a bit with the slash issue and posted a walkthrough here.

Chord roots with accidentals too far from slash

Dorico factors in the accidental height here, even if it wouldn’t cause a collision. This is obviously not always desirable, and can cause visual discrepancies as you’ve discovered like below (middle alignment selected): [slashes] I don’t have an easy solution for you other than don’t use diagonal arrangement. It’s fine with linear: [linear] Your accidental positioning is a bit wonky though IMO. If you really want superscripted accidentals, I would bring the size down a bit. Under Engravin…

The accidental issue might be fixable with a doricolib file as well, but I probably won’t have time to look into it for at least a week or so. A couple of years ago I had posted a walkthrough for how I made doricolib edits for this on my own system here if you want to try it yourself:

Chord Symbol Accidental Positioning Walkthrough

So positioning options for Chord Symbol Accidentals and Chord Symbol Suffix Accidentals has always been high on my wishlist, probably since the first week I started using Dorico. Unfortunately I don’t think they look balanced correctly with basically any text font other than Academico. There are actually 2 different sized glyphs for suffix accidentals, so for sharps these are called comp.csymAccidentalSharp and comp.csymAccidentalSharpSmall. The small glyph is used for scaling factors of 75% and…