the chord suffixs used the Jazz font, and I used the change chord suffix fonts in the chord menu. I checked the Fix Chord Suffix Spacing and it worked like a charm.
Mark McCarron --- On Fri, 5/22/09, Christopher Smith <christopher.sm...@videotron.ca> wrote: > From: Christopher Smith <christopher.sm...@videotron.ca> > Subject: Re: [Finale] Sibelius (6 chord size) > To: finale@shsu.edu > Date: Friday, May 22, 2009, 12:18 PM > If you are using the Engraver default > with the Arial suffixes, this can be done. But did you do > this with the JazzCord library? If you increase the font > size, the kerning is off and every item is mashed together. > If you are using the library that ONLY has the individual > JazzCord glyphs, then of course it is easy. But if you have > the library loaded that has each suffix broken into > different characters, then it is hell. > > I have kludged it before by attaching the chords to hidden > Layer 4 items, then resizing ALL of Layer 4. This is nice, > because the chord suffixes keep their kerning when you just > zoom them. I have also attached them to another staff, which > I have hidden with a staff style and resized, then I dragged > the hidden staff down to be superimposed over the real > staff. This is good for lead sheets, but it gets kludgy in > extracted/linked parts. Quite a bit different from the > one-click solution in Sibelius. > > Christopher > > > On 22-May-09, at 22-May-09 12:10 PM, Mark McCarron > wrote: > > > > > I recently had to increase the all of the chord > suffics in a piece (in Finale) and I expected to have to > resize and respace all of the chords seperatly. To my > suprise there is a way do do it all at once. > > > > Mark McCarron > > > > --- On Fri, 5/22/09, Christopher Smith <christopher.sm...@videotron.ca> > wrote: > > > >> From: Christopher Smith <christopher.sm...@videotron.ca> > >> Subject: Re: [Finale] Sibelius 6 > >> To: finale@shsu.edu > >> Date: Friday, May 22, 2009, 8:30 AM > >> > >> On May 22, 2009, at 8:14 AM, Christopher Smith > wrote: > >> > >>> Sibelius and Makemusic both understand that > most of > >> their user base are casual users. No shame in > that. But it > >> is true that Sibelius works better for the casual > user - by > >> design - than Finale does. And while there have > been > >> improvements in Finale's defaults, there is still > much room > >> for improvement and there is shame in that. > >>> > >>> Christopher > >> > >> > >> Here I go talking to myself, arguing with myself > to make it > >> worse... > >> > >> Actually, one area I see with my students is that > Sibelius' > >> default size for chord symbols is TINY. That is a > default > >> file problem. However, when I ask them to increase > it, no > >> problem; it's a very easy fix in Sibelius. But try > to do the > >> same thing in Finale with one of the JazzCord > libraries... > >> whoa! > >> > >> There, I just argued with myself, gave point, > counterpoint > >> and rebuttal, and I think I won the argument! > >> > >> Christopher > >> > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
