I’m using this dialogue for the first time now, it is brilliant, and thanks a lot to the developers for adding the “Apply to all roots” option which wasn’t there in the previous versions I believe.
I have two questions:
Why is the “Apply to all roots” option greyed out for some chord symbols (see screenshot) - namely the ones that have a different root bass) ? I kind of assume because it would be too difficult to apply the changes to different combinations of roots and accidentals, but please let me know:
How can I get rid of the parenthesis on this add9 chord (see screenshot)? I can’t seem to be able to delete those elements upon selecting them. I deliberately chose to have parenthesis on alterations in the engraving options as that’s what I use commonly for b9 #9 b13 #11 etc etc. But I want the add9 to be without brackets. But if I try manually o can’t get rid of those brackets, why?
No.1: Yes, altered-bass-note chords or polychords can’t have an all-roots appearance. That’s because an all-roots appearance will actually be substituted into all altered-bass-note chords or polychords that use them. For example, if you create an all-roots appearance for “maj7”, this will not only affect, say, Cmaj7 and Dmaj7, but also Cmaj7/B, Cmaj7|F#m7, etc. - anywhere where “maj7” shows up.
No.2: I wonder whether you might get better results just by setting this Engraving Option, rather than by trying to edit the appearance manually:
