Still big problem with chord symbols... help please

[Italyuser]

sorry, but I still need help… I’m working a lot with chord symbols for the students’ end-of-year recitals and I’m having big problems with Dorico 6. Problems I never had with Dorico 5.

Here are the steps I followed.

I open Dorico
File > New
Add single musician > Piano

I write a chord symbol: C7b9b13

This is how it looks in Dorico5:

This is how it looks in Dorico6:

so I go into Engrave mode, double click the chord symbol and change “13b”, but I can’t select and move “9b”.

13b is displayed with a thick border and I can “expand” it and manipulate it, whereas 9b is not.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for your help

[FredGUnn]

We’re probably going to need to see a sample file to diagnose this.

[Italyuser]

chordFail.dorico (1.4 MB)

thank you

[Italyuser]

Hi! do you have any good news for me? I’m using Dorico 5 to avoid problems… I hope there is a solution

[hannuala]

It seems to be a bug Dorico 6, but if you want to correct the alteration appearance:

1. Write the chord to the score as C7b9b13. Go to Engraving Options > Chord Symbols > Alterations and change the “Arrangement of alterations” and “Position of accidentals relative to alteration”. Click Apply and Close.

2. Go the Engrave mode and double-click the chord symbol:

3. Double-click on 9:

4. Drag the 9 from here to the left:

5. Result, click OK to return to the chord symbol editing screen:

6. Do the same with number 13. Double-click 13:

Drag 13 to the left:

Result, click OK:

7. After that click 13 and drag the 13 closer to 9b:
   

   

8. Result, click OK.
   

   

9. When still in Engrave mode, Go to Library > Chord Symbols. Type C7b9b13 to the box on the left and click + symbol:

10. When the chord is selected, click Apply to all roots.

11. . If you want to, click the star symbol to Save as default for the future projects. Click OK.

Problem solved for now.

[FredGUnn]

The problem is it opens fine in D5 and D6 broke it. You could rebuild those suffixes, but as it’s obviously a bug, I would maybe just use D5 for now and see if an update fixes it. There have been several chord symbol bugs with D6 reported already, and with both D4 and D5 there was an x.0.1 update within a month of the release, so there might be a fix on the way. Or maybe not and all older projects will now have to have chord symbols edited. If it’s possible to just continue the project in D5, I would probably do that for now. If you have to move ahead in D6, I’m not sure there’s an easy solution other than redefining that b9 with the correct spacing.

[Italyuser]

thank you so much for the very valuable and detailed information.

Ok, so it’s a known issue, I was afraid it was something that only happened to me. I deeply appreciate your concern.

Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!