Minor chord “–” (minus) glyph size not applied globally in Dorico 5

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Hi,

I’m using Dorico 5 and I’m trying to make the minus sign for minor chords larger across my project.

What I did:

  1. Went to Engrave mode → Engraving Options → Chord Symbols → clicked Edit… at the bottom to open Project Default Chord Symbol Appearances.

  2. Entered a minor chord (for example Fm) in “Enter a chord symbol”.

  3. In the big preview, selected the minus glyph so it showed the red box, then the pencil
    made it bigger.

  4. Clicked Apply and Save as Default.

  5. Back in the score, the minus for that specific chord (e.g. F–) is correctly larger.

The problem:

  • The larger minus only applies to the chord I edited.

  • Other minor chords (for example I type Gm and Dorico shows G–) still display a small minus.

Questions:

  1. Is this a limitation/bug in Dorico 5’s chord-symbol system (that only Dorico 6’s “Apply to all roots” really fixes)?

  2. Is there any supported workflow in Dorico 5 to truly globalize that larger minus sign so that all dash‑style minor chords share it, without manually editing every root/chord type?

  3. If there is a recommended step‑by‑step method for Dorico 5 specifically, could someone outline it?

Thanks in advance for any guidance—right now I’m stuck with a big “–” on one chord and small ones on the others.

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I’m experiencing the same difficulty. I have four different arrangements where I need to increase the minus sign on every single minor chord, and each arrangement uses a wide variety of types of minor chords, so going through each chord on each arrangement doesn’t really feel like an option. If you have any solutions, please let me know!