Finale Forum

That is impressive and encouraging. In several cases the alignment still needs to adjusted. Moving the 4 characters in (#5) individually with the mouse is still going to be extremely difficult in the chord suffix editor. Adding these features to the editor would probably make it very easy to use: A ...

Those options are not available in the jazz font libraries. What are the tips and suggestions for taking the pain out of using the jazz font?

Thank you for your reply. The A7 chord is right. Because it has altered extensions the "7" is needed in the spelling. In Finale's jazz font library several dominant chord suffixes with altered extensions are not preceded with "7" and I believe they should be. The spacing and alignment look good, bet...

Please review the chord suffixes in Sher Music’s New Real Books Vol 1 - 4, The Standards Real Book, and The World’s Greatest Fake Book. It is essential to understand why the commonly used suffixes in these books are formatted, spelled, spaced and aligned as they are, and why the suffixes in Finale’s...

Thank you for your reply. I watched that video sometime ago before upgrading to v26. I wish it were that easy. Those chord suffixes do not reflect my preferences. Sher Music’s New Real Book Volume One was published in 1988. Since then, this and several other jazz real books set the standards for cho...

I’ve spent 100 - 200 hours over the past 18 months with v25 and 26 working on a good set of chord suffixes in jazz fonts, as they appear in the newer real books from Sher Music, Hal Leonard, Warner Bros. Finale does not provide a comparable set of chord suffixes and the chord suffix editor is imposs...