How do you increase the size of the b in (b9)? I’ve looked in the engraving options but I can’t find it.
Have you made any manual adjustments to your chord appearances?( I don’t mean what shows but how it looks.)
Upload your project and I can quickly check.
I haven’t made any adjustments to anything. I tried changing fonts and the size doesn’t alter also when I’ve looked closer the b signs are small throughout eg the Eb7. This is the same excerpt in finale using the same font
Lady Is a Tramp (Jan)-[AutoSave].dorico (778.7 KB)
Go to Library > Font Styles and check the Chord Symbols Music Text font style: try setting it to Finale Jazz. Then increase the size.
I managed to get it like this. However, the brackets look different.
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I have just spent half an hour working on just altering the symbols as advised, eventually I get the b to look acceptable but now the its telling me there is no glyph for the time sig and in the part name I can’t add a lowercase b (as in Bb).
Why oh why can’t it just work out of the box without having to use such convoluting work arounds. When I look at the music I am now confronted with 4 different size flats.
How is it telling you that there’s no glyph for the time signature, Kevin? What error or warning are you seeing?
Your project should be automatically showing a flat in the part name if needed. The name that appears at the top left corner of the first page of the part comes from the layout name, i.e. the name that appears in the Layouts panel in Setup mode. If you double-click the name of the layout in Setup mode, you can edit the name there: you should see when you edit it that it uses the {@flat@} token, which just appears as b in the panel when the layout name is not being edited – however, this will show up as a flat using the font defined as the Music text character style (which you can check in Library > Character Styles).
The intention is indeed that all of this should “just work”, but the problem specifically here is that Finale Jazz is not quite set up as it needs to be for chord symbols in Dorico. We need to do some extra things to try to improve this in future, and it’s on our list. (Our list, though, is very long and has many things on it!)