Following John Barron’s video about custom chord symbols, working through the New Real Book sheet, when altering the size of elements in a C7b9 chord, the parenthesis around the b9 disappeared. So, I started from scratch using only Dorico defaults. Even though Engraving Options>Chord Symbols>Alterations is set to “Always use Parentheses”, when I then enter a new C7b9 chord, there is no parenthesis. How would I get that back? no alterations parentheses.dorico (1.6 MB)
Library Manager shows that your file has a number of difference from factory settings in the Music Symbols collection. I’m not sure exactly which one is responsible, but when I reset that category to factory, even though Library Manager says there are still differences, the parentheses reappear.
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Thank you so much, asherber! I copied your steps, and sure enough, that did the job. I was only looking under the Chord Symbols collection. I don’t understand how so many things became different than Factory on a freshly created file as uploaded. Maybe my “User library” accumulated changes over time? I need to further study this complex, powerful tool called Library Manager. Cheers.
You basically deleted those glyphs so they are redefined as nothing. Here’s the entry in Library Manager:
Note the Number of components in your file is 0. If I reset that entry and the one below it the parentheses come back.
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(Nice, I missed those entries sitting right there!)
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Thank you FredGUnn. Took me a long time to find that, but now know how to correct it. Thanks to you and asherber, I almost have my custom chord symbol set done. But for some reason, with a few chord symbols, the “Apply to all roots” is greyed out in the “Project Default Chord Symbol Appearances” editor. Any ideas how to fix that? Should I open a new thread for that issue?