I am working on a chord changer plug-in for Finale which allows switching the font size including correct scaling of the offsets (see demo at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpJa6Lf4HZA ) as well as changing between different chord fonts. Even symbol clusters as used in JazzCord, SwingCord or RealBook Chords are automatically detected and converted (see demo at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jAEKsQ7gWY ). Please be patient. The plug-in will be available soon.
Jan Am 23.01.2016 um 19:19 schrieb Christopher Smith: > Yup, different libraries is the way to go. My first one took me a week, my > second took me most of the day. Huge pain. Plus, there is a long-standing bug > where if you import a Jazz library into a Maestro document, the parentheses > end up being Maestro instead of Jazz, which have a different baseline so that > they are too low. Good luck. > > Oh, and there is STILL no way to get just a few chords into a different size. > You can have different SUFFIXES, but for the name of the chord (like Eb in an > Ebmaj7 chord) it is fixed for the entire document. Sometimes I have very > dense measures that I would like to compress a bit, but easy way to do it. > > Christopher > > >> On Jan 23, 2016, at 1:13 PM, Haroldo Mauro <hma...@hmauro.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks for replying. I agree it is a huge lack. I will mention it to tech >> support. The plugin would be a solution for me, since what I usually need is >> to resize changes for the whole document/instruments. To resize one or two >> chords once in a while would be easy just to edit the chord itself or create >> a new one in the Chord Definition window, with different size fonts and >> positioning. Now, I have this custom library of chords, created over the >> years, which I like, but the fonts are kind of small for some players to >> read at a distance, so I want to increase the whole library for the new >> parts I write in the future. I hate to think I will need to edit the chords >> one by one. With Data Check->Change Fonts I run into the same problem. The >> fonts increase in size, but not the spacing. >> Harold >> >> On 23/01/2016, at 15:29, Christopher Smith wrote: >> >>> No, and this is a HUGE hairy lack in the program right now. Please write >>> tech support and complain about this. It is supposed to be something that >>> computers do easily, yet there is no way to do it ever since chords started >>> attaching to measures instead of items. In the past, you could attach a >>> chord to a hidden item in another layer and resize the item, causing the >>> chord to resize as well, but that functionality was removed. >>> >>> The only kludge I know of is to have another staff with everything hidden >>> except chords, and resize the staff. You would include the special staff in >>> the part where you needed it. Obviously, if you have several instruments >>> needing resized chords, you would need a different extra staff for EVERY >>> instrument, unless everything you put in the piano you also put in the >>> guitar and bass part, and of course don’t forget instruments that need >>> changes for improvisation. Urg. >>> >>> Jari Williamsson said he was working on an edit to his Change plugin to >>> allow kerning to be preserved for chord suffixes, which would be great, >>> except there would STLL be no easy way to resize just a couple of chords. >>> >>> Christopher >>> >>> >>>> On Jan 23, 2016, at 4:41 AM, Haroldo Mauro <hma...@hmauro.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Is there a plugin, or any other way, to add space among chord symbol >>>> suffix items globally and proportionally, when increasing chord symbols >>>> size through menu Utilities->Change->Chords? These items will collide when >>>> increased by a large percentage, so the idea is that the space among these >>>> items increase by the same percentage. >>>> Harold >>>> Fin2014d Mac Lion >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Finale mailing list >>>> Finale@shsu.edu >>>> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >>>> >>>> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >>>> finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Finale mailing list >>> Finale@shsu.edu >>> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >>> >>> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >>> finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> Finale@shsu.edu >> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >> finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
