So I am using Dorico Pro 3 (Mac) and just getting my feet wet. I just finished my first project and have learned a lot. But one feature that has eluded me is the ability to customize the chord symbol appearance - at a default level for new projects - for all chords of the same type (I am not refer…

[image] "-" in chord symbol Is very small Hello community! I have a problem with dimension of “-” in chord symbol. It Is very small, in all the options (apice, pedice, baseline). How can I enlarge It? Thank you! Try to see it

When you edit the specific chord in Engrave Mode, you are editing that one specific individual instance. When you edit in Project Default Appearances, you are editing that one specific root/quality combination. For a global change, when you are in the Project Default Appearances window, don’t edit i…

Thanks, Fred, I’ll give that a shot. It sounds like I will need to create a custom “template” with my chord suffix appearance mods to start every new project. And perhaps a set of templates for different instrumentations.

Any news on exporting the project default chord symbol appearances ? I was hoping that Export Library would be the solution, but so far I haven’t been able to import my custom chords into other projects. The Library manager doesn’t have a projects default appearances button; so there’s nothing to i…

Thanks ! I was only looking at the Engraving Options… :blush:

Hi, could anyone guide me to this process again? I have edited the appearance of A-maj7 the way I like it, but if I write G-maj7 it looks different and I can’t understand where I’m supposed to be editing for a “global” fix. Thanks a lot! Best -m

As I understand it, there is no global fix. You have to do the same for each root.

This was a feature that I was hoping that would be implemented / enhanced in Dorico 5.1 but unfortunately was not. The way it is now is a lot of work. Maybe in Dorico 5.2 update… who knows? I hope so!

I think this is what you’re looking for (the first dot point btw): Edit Chord Symbol Component dialog The Edit Chord Symbol Component dialog allows you to create custom chord symbol components and edit existing components, both for all chord symbols that use the component project-wide …

Global Custom Chord Symbol Appearance

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Italyuser April 6, 2020, 8:38am 2

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