I’ve been working with jazz lead sheet for 50 years, and I’ve developed a standard for chord symbols that works for my students and colleagues. I’d like to be able to use it with Dorico pro 6, and, after a full year of effort, the results are pretty good, but not exactly what I want. I’m attaching a test sheet with chord symbols in order to illustrate the details I’d like to correct.
Chord symbol test.dorico (732.7 KB)
The top line is perfect, but at the end of the 2nd line, I wish that the circle and plus sign for the diminished and augmented triads aligned vertically with the minus sign for the minor triad and were the size and boldness of the same symbols as they appear in the first line.
In the 3rd line, I wish there were a way to put a little space between the accidentals and the chord suffixes.
In the 5th line, I cannot find the correct Engraving Options for putting parentheses around all of the altered extensions, b9, #9, #11 and b13, and not around the b5 and +5 in the top line. In the top line I prefer +5 for the chords based on augmented triads, but would like the # before the 11 extension. Can’t seem to get it on my own. Also the b9 and #9 seem crowded, but the b13 is ok. Finally, the sus4(b9) in the last line should also include parentheses.
Are these issues all resolvable in the Engraving Options, or do they require tweaking in Chord Symbols … in the Library menu.
I hope I’m not asking too much, but I need to get to the bottom of this. Thanks.