Annoying Gap Between the Flat Sign and the Note Name
When I change the Chord Name Font to Times New Roman there are annothing gap between the Chord Name and the Flat Sign.
How to fix that?
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Use FreeSerif instead?
Or create a customized chord description file to handle your preferred font. Or ask the designers of Times New Roman to alter their spacing.
In reply to Or create a customized chord by Marc Sabatella
how likely is the latter happening?
In reply to how likely is the latter by Jojo-Schmitz
Very small chance for Times New Roman specifically, of course. But not out of the question in general for other fonts that might still be active development, especially ones that are freely licensed / "open source".
In reply to Or create a customized chord by Marc Sabatella
"Or create a customized chord description file to handle your preferred font."
1) How?
2) I tried some other fonts. They have the same annoyance. Can you suggest me some neat, serious looking fonts? (unlike the default jazz note sheet)
In reply to "Or create a customized chord by zanshin777
2) see above, FreeSerif, comes with MuseScore and is the default in 2.x, except for Jazz style
In reply to "Or create a customized chord by zanshin777
The chord description files are found in the "Styles" folder under wherever you have installed MuseScore. Make a copy of the one called "chords_std.xml", place it in your own personal Styles folder (next to your Scores folder), and edit it with your favorite text editor. Then specify that you want to use this file via Style / General / Chord Symbols. There are some comments in the file to suggest what you can do, if you need more specific assistance once you get that far.
But I am not sure why you'd bother when the default FreeSerif works just fine right out of the box.
Edit: I see, looks like maybe you are starting with the Jazz Lead Sheet tempalte then modifying some things? If you don't want to use jazz-style chord symbols, better not to use that template, unless there are other aspects of it you do want. But anyhow, FreeSerif is the default for all other templates, or if you don't use a template but instead choose instruments manually.
In reply to The chord description files by Marc Sabatella
When I tried to change the font of the chord symbols at "Style - Text - Chord Symbol - Font - Apply - OK" section. It doesn't change. ?!
Although I can change its size.
How to change the Font?
In reply to When I tried to change the by zanshin777
Please share the score
In reply to Please share the score by Jojo-Schmitz
Here is the file. See; I can't change the font.
Could you recommend me a template for "Lead Sheet" which has more neat and serious looking font including Chords only?
In reply to Here is the file. See; I by zanshin777
As I said before, it works unless you are using the Jazz chord style. You are using the Jazz chord style, so change it to Standard (Style / General / Chord Symbols) and then you can use whatever font you like.
Not sure what you mean by "serious". You are using a jazz template and/or selected the jazz chord symbol style, so I might assume you are producing jazz charts. If so, then this really *is* the sort of font you want. "Serious" jazz is virtually always published with this sort of font. Roman fonts etc are almost never used for chord symbols in jazz. In other styles, the default freeSerif font should work well, though.
In reply to As I said before, it works by Marc Sabatella
BTW, when I say FreeSerif is the default, I mean, if you *aren't* using a jazz template. Realistically, if you are producing a jazz chart, best to use the jazz template and use the Jazz chord symbol style - that's what jazz musicians and publishers are used to and will generally prefer. But if you are *not* producing a jazz chart, probably best to not use that template. Just use the basic "Treble Clef" template, which will have all default settings - meaning Standard chord symbol style, and FreeSerif for all text.
You can also create your own templates - simply set up a score how you like then save it to your Templates folder. So if you really want a chart that uses the MuseJazz font everywhere else and otherwise uses jazz conventions (winged repeats, etc) but nevertheless uses FreeSerif for chord symbols, just create a new score from the jazz Lead Sheet template, change the chord symbol style to Standard and the Text Style to FreeSerif, then save to your Templates folder under a new name.
In reply to As I said before, it works by Marc Sabatella
How to change chord style?
In reply to How to change chord style? by zanshin777
As mentioned before, Style / General Chord Symbols. But if you aren't creating jazz charts and don't like the MuseJazz font, better to simply not use the Jazz template in the first palce. All other templates use the Standard style and will default to FreeSerif.
In reply to As mentioned before, Style / by Marc Sabatella
Thank you all very much. I did it finally. :))
In reply to When I tried to change the by zanshin777
Changing the font there should work unless you are using the Jazz chord symbol style, which is hard-wired to use MuseJazz. The special formatting used in the Jazz style only works with that font.
Removed.
I think I know why the gap appears. It's because in many fonts the glyph for a flat sign is missing. This just happened to me and I managed to solve it.
I wanted to use New Century Schoolbook in a score instead of FreeSerif but when I changed the instrument names to the first one the same annoying gap described by zanshin777 appeared in the instrument name of the clarinet in B flat. I opened the font in FontForge and discovered there was no glyph for the flat sign. The system (I'm on a Mac) was replacing the sign with the bitmap image from the character list, which has the flat centred inside a white square and that is the reason why the gap appears.
The solution was simple: I opened FreeSerif in FontForge, copied the glyph and pasted it in the proper place in New Century Schoolbook (View>Goto>U+266D). I then generated a new otf file and replaced the one in my fonts folder, and voilà! No annoying gap anymore! :-)
In reply to I think I know why the gap by Antonio Gervasoni
Might work for you, but won't for anybody else looking at your score and not having that modified font
In reply to Might work for you, but won't by Jojo-Schmitz
Yes, that's true if I upload the work to musescore.com which, in this case, I don't intent to do (I won't explain why because it has nothing to do with the topic of this discussion). But your point is a good one. My solution will not work for anyone uploading files to musescore.com or anyone who wants to share them with others as MSCZ files (no problem with PDF's of course) by any other means.
On the other hand, my post does explain why the gap appears. At least in the case of New Century Schoolbook.