Dear Finale List, Using the JazzChord font, I have been trying to notate a Dominant 13th (b9) chord as a polychord in Finale like this:
A ---- C7 In the process, I found that there is no way to attach a chord suffix to an alternate bass note in a chord symbol. If I was willing to settle for a horizontal alignment (A/C7), I came up with the following work-arounds: 1) Enter it as a text block or text expression. Unfortunately, I have to then manually align it with other chords, I have to create a separate expression for each root/chord, and if I copy it to a region with a different key, the chord symbols won't transpose. 2) Enter just the "7" as a text expression or text block. These, too, have to be extensively manually tweaked to look right. 3) The most practical work-around (for horizontal alignment): Put the "7" suffix after the upper triad and set its position so it will align with what Finale thinks is the alternate bass note, and enter the upper triad symbol in a separate layer from the "alternate bass" chord. To facilitate Type Into Score entry, I also preceded it with an empty character from the JazzChord font so the position will be different from the "7" in a normal dominant 7th chord. I had to create two separate suffixes: one that avoids an accidental and one that doesn't. However, when I tried to put a C *UNDER* the A chord (by selecting "Under Root" from the Alternate Bass popup in the Chord Definition db or typing A_C), the vertical spacing between the chord and alternate bass was way too extreme, and the length, thickness and depth of the horizontal separator was completely wrong (I want to make the horizontal line thicker, wider and lower). Does anyone know where these things can be edited? Thanks in advance, Brian Williams _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
