Having now written well over 100 arrangements with Dorico, I’m always surprised that I still stumble over things. Fortunately, this forum exists and I almost always get a good answer quickly. Here is my current problem:
I changed some chord extensions in the attached file. Suddenly all chord extensions containing a “7” had disappeared. (there are only minor 7 chords).
When I entered a corresponding chord (in this case Bm7) via Library / Chord Symbols and edited it, all “7” extensions were back. Now, however, the Bm chord directly after the double barline also had a “7” and it should not have one.
When I then entered a Bm chord via Library / Chord Symbols and edited it, all the “7” extensions disappeared again.
In other words: I don’t see any way in this file to write a Bm7 chord and a Bm chord at the same time.
Can anyone help me?
E48 Höhner 25 - Au revoir.dorico (1.0 MB)
What if you do Reset to Factory in Library->Chord symbols
Also check all the options in Library->Engraving Options->Chord Symbols.
Jesper
You’ve changed the definition of the lowercase “m” glyph used in minor chords to now be “m7”:
So now any suffix with an “m” in it, will actually show as “m7” instead. It looks like you’ve also defined your “7” to be nothing. That one is trickier to recover. Honestly, I would just go into Library Manager and sync Glyph Primitives and Music Symbols with either your defaults or the Factory settings. That will restore those glyphs that you edited and both m and m7 chords will appear correctly.
I think you are complicating things by editing chord symbols instead of setting the options you want in Engraving Options->Chord Symbols.
Jesper
Thanks!
That helped!
Yes, you’re absolutely right! Now I’ve tidied everything up. Thank you very much!