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jan wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2017, 06:11

Thanks for the input. Yes, this is automatable ... I'll see what I can do.

Great!

Here's an issue I ran into again today with longer chord symbols, where sometimes really the only option is to create an opaque expression and break the barline: Just Friends Score pg5.jpg Jan, if you came up with a plug-in that could automate that in some way, I'd buy it as soon as it was available!

On a big band standard or leadsheet (which even usually is in 4/4), I'd prefer system 4 where (nearly all of) the slashes have the same distance. Hi Jan, My only problem with system 4 is that I routinely have to use a mix of basic slashes and rhythmic slashes, and system 4 is pretty close to the sp...

Just to clarify, here's your example with some extra space added to the bars with collisions: ChordSpacing.jpg System 1 is default spacing. System 2 has 144 EVPUs added to the bars with collisions. System 3 has 96 EVPUs added and then the colliding symbols were moved a few clicks away from each othe...

I don't see any problem with a chord symbol hanging over into a resting measure. Per definition, chord symbols remain valid also during rests, and chords might indeed be played during notated rests of a melody line, unless "No chord" is explicitly specified. This is true for a lead sheet, but not f...

I have to deal with chord collisions all the time, and I do it a variety of different ways. In Finale I almost always start with chord spacing turned off, as it generally looks like crap. On very rare occasions I'll turn in on for one measure or something. One of my favorite ways to avoid collisions...

What do Notatio members think about this issue and are there techniques that might make the second approach easier to implement in Finale? Just saw this thread and if you haven't tried it, TGTools/Modify/Modify Slurs could possibly be of some help. Here's the default Finale way of doing it (started...

Was there ever a consensus on whether it is a D# or D natural in the 3rd bar? I see some engravers adding a #, some a natural, and some just leaving it alone.

For me, the document would be more useful if one saw each program in its Sunday best. I'm in agreement here. I mean it's nice to see what each program does by default, but most better engravers aren't going to limit themselves to the defaults, they are going to tweak them to achieve the best possib...

Doesn't Dorico use LibreBodoni for titling with Academico (a free Century Schoolbook) for lyrics? I'm sure I've seen a variety of modern face in some publishing houses' scores. Apropos of nothing, I note the OUP are using Plantin for lyrics and Sabon for titling, and I'm not sure of the merit of th...