Dimished Chords

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campus five
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Post by campus five » Sat Nov 03, 2007 9:45 pm

Any idea how to get Finale to display a degree sign instead of "dim" for a chord suffix. I'm using the Swingfont, and don't want to get my midi keyboard to do this. Finale 2007. Thanks.


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Peter Thomsen
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Post by Peter Thomsen » Sun Nov 04, 2007 12:27 pm

You can edit the chord symbol's display in the Chord Suffix Editor.

I don't know the Swing font, but in the Maestro font the "degree sign" is character #111.

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Post by michelp » Sun Nov 04, 2007 12:35 pm

In the chord suffix library I have created, I have simply used letter o, which is almost circular in several fonts (Helvetica). Other symbols I'm also using, such as the triangle (for Maj 7) or ø (for m7b5), are all available in several fonts.
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Post by campus five » Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:52 am

Funny - it was already assigned to "o". I just didn't think to try typing that. Thanks.

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