question on standard chord symbols with "Inkpen2 Chords" font
I want to use standard chord symbols and "Inkpen2 Chords" font in MuseScore 2. How can I eliminate the leading and trailing spaces around lowercase "b" so that the "b" appears as a "flat" sign (small and up high) in my chord name? (By the way I do not want to use jazz chord symbols and I do not want to use any font except "Inkpen2 Chords". Yes, I'm picky. (I think.))
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I think that font was designed to be used with either or Finale, not with MuseScore, so it's unleikly to work out of the box with any other program. There was until just a few months ago no standard for where accidentals or other musical symbols would be found within fonts, or what sizes or positions they would be, so each notation program does things differently. There is now a standard called SMuFL that MuseScore will supports for the upcoming 2.0 version, but it's unliekly your font is compatible with that standard.
Thats not to say it's unusable, though. But you will have to hand-edit the XML file for your selected chord symbol style (stdchords.xml by default in 1.3, chords_std.xml by default for 2.0) and figure out how to find all the things that need fixing.
In reply to I think that font was by Marc Sabatella
Thanks Marc. Indeed, I modified the "Program Files (x86)/MuseScore2/styles/chords_std.xml" file by putting XML comments around "SYM" tags for the names "#" and "b", then saved this altered copy to "Documents/MuseScore2/Styles", then selected "STYLE->GENERAL->CHORD SYMBOLS" and applied my altered copy. Okay, it behaves now the way I want: my favorite "Inkpen2 Chords" font now displays sharps and flats as small and up high. Fine. I'll be back and throwing another Greek Tragedy for you later. :-)
In reply to Thanks Marc. Indeed, I by Gene Gaunt
Awesome! thanks for that fix. i love inkpen2 chords.. needed that...