Adjust Space in Chord Symbols

• Oct 2, 2013 - 09:54

How do I adjust the Space in Chord symbols between the Key and any additional sign?

I used the standard settings. Unfortunally the Chord Symbols Eb and Bb are had to identify (see picture).

Bildschirmfoto 2013-08-18 um 22.09.18.png


Comments

This is a known issue in 1.x and will be fixed in 2.0, which you can test today as a nightly build.

A workaround is to tweak the file stdchords.xml in a certain way.
I changed it from

{syntaxhighlighter brush:xml}
:n m:0:-1 :a m:.5:1
m:0:2 / :n :a
{/syntaxhighlighter}
to

{syntaxhighlighter brush:xml}
:n m:1:-1 :a m:-.5:1
m:1:-1 / :n :a
{/syntaxhighlighter}

Seems to me those are *not* the standard settings, though - the default would have been to use the same Times New Roman font for chord symbols as for titles. I think the spacing works better with that font. But since you are creating a jazz chart, you might prefer using one of the "jazz" chord description files such as cchords_muse.xml. See [[nodetitle:Chordname]] for more on how these work. Formatting works quite well right out of the box when using any of these.

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