Lowercase letter - alternative bass note

Hi. I’m new here at the forum as well as to Dorico (I come from the Finale program). When I write chords eg. F/c, Dorico change it to F/C (both capitals). How can I change if I would like to have small letters at alternative bass notes?
In Finale I have both options.

Sorry, that is not an option in Dorico.

I have never seen this before. If you want to lobby for it as a new option, they will want to see published examples.

Hi @tz1 , and welcome to Dorico!

Actually this is not standard AFAIK…, but you can certainly edit the chord symbol appearance in Engrave mode.
Here a visual guide:

And in menu Library/Chord symbols… you can save this change as default for future projects:

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Thanks. Nice to know it’s an option

A minor point, but please don’t scale down a capital to look small. Use proper lowercase.

It may be easiest to simply type these in as text. You could use MusGlyphs to easily mimic chord symbols.

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Thanks. I can easily get published examples, I have several books on my bookshelf. Where should I turn to, if I want to lobby for this feature?

Go ahead and post an image or two here in this thread!

Interesting. These are all Swedish volumes, yes? Any others?
And do you find this actually clearer or easier to read than capital letters?

Yup, that’s Swedish alright.

Jesper

Nope - Danish!

Aha! (I was guessing by “på”.)

I can’t see why the location or language is relevant.
If it were Swedish, then what? - maybe it was just out of interest? :face_with_monocle: :slightly_smiling_face:

  • I don’t think my position is relevant

There’s different traditions in countries/ regions how to notate eg. chords.
I think that a professional software selling all over the world, should make an effort to accommodate differences.

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It was just out of interest, yes. Based on citations, now it is up to the Dorico team to decide whether to implement this as an option and if so, how to prioritize it. I was just trying to assist the evaluation process.

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Thanks. :smiley:
We’ll have to see what they come up with

OT but ä ö instead of æ ø is definitely Swedish.

It is Swedish, I am Swedish and part Danish so I ought to know.

Jesper

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Let’s try to stay focused on the topic - how to notate chords in different regions :wink:

About language in the images:

All the sheets are English text :wink:
The small text below IMG 1913 is Danish
The small text just above Let it Be, is Danish

The text above Let it Be (which belongs to the previous song) is Swedish - great song by the way: Har du visor, min vän, by Bengt Ahlfors (Finnish-Swedish composer).

All images is from music books published in Denmark.

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