Update chord symbol style defaults

• Dec 3, 2018 - 18:23
Reported version
3.0
Priority
P2 - Medium
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S4 - Minor
Reproducibility
Always
Status
closed
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
MuseScore

I propose updating the default styles for chord symbols as follows:

1) change user-visible names of text styles from "Chord Symbol A" and "Chord Symbol B" to "Chord Symbol" and "Chord Symbol (Alternate)"

2) change default alignment of chord symbols back to left aligned as per 2.x (perhaps update guitar templates to use center, as this makes sense when using fretboard diagrams)

3) change the "B" style to be same size as "A", italic, and above "A" (update jazz templates to make them consistent with this)

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• Dec 3, 2018 - 21:22
Title Update chord symbol defaults styles ⇒ Update chord symbol style defaults
Status active ⇒ PR created

See https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/4297. Implements what I described here, except for changing the centering for guitar. Actually, I added code to automatically center chords with fretboard diagrams as parent, but it doesn't work because chord symbols currently aren't actually attached to fretboard diagram. Seems we've gone back and forth on this issue; this way at least the code is there if we change our minds. It would be possible with more work to center over fretboard diagrams automatically even with normal segment-parented chord symbols, but that will have to wait.

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