After months I’m still struggling with getting chords symbols looking the way I want. Specifically, in the detail below, my “minor with major 7th” chord appears with parentheses around the “M7”, which I do not want. All the rest is good.
The next detail shows a chord study exercise from a few months back that produced the look I want (even if fonts aren’t the same):
It’s apparently an Engraving Options issue, or possible a font issue, but I can’t get rid of those damned parentheses no matter what I do. I’d like to find the problem, correct it for the document in which it appears, and save it as a default. I thought I had done that with a recent project, but now I wonder if saving as default means it affects all new documents involving chord symbols, or just those deriving from certain templates. Some clarity there would be immensely useful (and time saving).
Another related issue concerns “Save as Project Template.” I expect I’ll be tweaking templates regularly as I get a better understanding of Dorico. If I modify a new document created from a template - which may involve chord symbols or other library options, or fonts, or the templates themselves - the command always prompts me to create a new template, which I suppose I could do, but why can’t I simply modify the original.
Another thing I know I will want to do in the future is create a new template from a current document retaining all of the preferences and options so carefully and painstakingly put in place to that point. What is the most logical and efficient way to do this?
