How do you switch chord symbol font from Musejazz Text to Petaluma Script?
I can't get my chord symbols to switch from Musejazz Text to Petaluma Script.
I started with the Big Band template and changed the musical fonts to Petaluma. Now I'm trying to do the same for text styles, but it isn't working on chord symbols. It says Petaluma Script in the inspector and style menu, but doesn't appear as such. Strangely, the Petaluma font does appear when editing the chord, but it goes away after.
Petaluma chord symbols do seem to be working fine when I try on another score that has Leland enabled.
EDIT: I got Petaluma to show with this workaround, but it's still not quite right.
1. Make a score using one of the Jazz templates.
2. Style -> Score: switch from MuseJazz to Petaluma
3. Style -> Text Styles -> Chord Symbol: Change font to Petaluma Script
No Change. Still Appears to be MuseJazz text.
4. Style -> Chord Symbols -> Appearance -> Style: switch from Jazz to Standard
OK, now it looks like Petaluma, except the ^ and o symbols don't match the font.
IMO that's too many steps. Ideally, I should only have to change the font via inspector, then set as style.
OS: Windows 10 (10.0), Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore version (32-bit): 3.6.0.487915773, revision: 1977cb3
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See:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/chord-symbols#chord-symbol-text
In reply to See: https://musescore.org… by Jm6stringer
Style → Text Styles → Chord Symbol isn't doing anything.
Style →Chord Symbols → Appearance → Style → switch from Jazz to Standard does change the font. But some symbols, like the major (^) and diminished (o) don't appear to be the the Petaluma font.
Select a chord symbol and make changes in the Inspector, pressing the "Set as style" buttons as you go:
![Petaluma.png]( "Petaluma.png")
Switch between Musejazz and Petaluma and watch a chord like Cm7b5 change slightly.
... or rather Petaluma Script:
![Petaluma_Script.png]( "Petaluma_Script.png")
In reply to ... or rather Petaluma… by Jm6stringer
I'm gonna go over my steps to be more clear:
1. Make a score using one of the Jazz templates.
2. Style -> Score: switch from MuseJazz to Petaluma
3. Style -> Text Styles -> Chord Symbol: Change font to Petaluma Script
No Change. Still Appears to be MuseJazz text.
4. Style -> Chord Symbols -> Appearance -> Style: switch from Jazz to Standard
OK, now it looks like Petaluma, except the ^ and o symbols don't match the font.
IMO that's too many steps. Ideally, I should only have to change the font via inspector, then set as style. There's also still the issue of those two symbols appearing out of place. Are they just not part of the font?
In reply to I'm gonna go over my steps… by Tristan H
Hmm...
Why do you select a Jazz template and then immediately start changing the built-in style settings?
Here:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/chord-symbols#chord-symbol-style
it states:
"In the Jazz style, the MuseJazz font is used for a handwritten look, with distinctive superscript and other formatting characteristics. The Jazz style is selected by default if you use any of the Jazz templates."
Jazz style chord symbols contain distinctive superscript and other formatting characteristics:
![Jazz_style_chord.png]( "Jazz_style_chord.png")
Such characteristics are not applicable/transferable to every font.
So... for changing the chord symbol font go to Format→Style…→Chord Symbols and select 'Standard' after which you can "change the font via inspector, then set as style."
Regarding the Petaluma chord symbols:
![Petaluma_chords.png]( "Petaluma_chords.png")
Petaluma is a font recently added to the musical symbols font and to the musical text font. I haven't used it, but it does look like for chord symbols, the triangle and circle are using fallback glyphs rather than from the same font family.
In reply to I'm gonna go over my steps… by Tristan H
To be clear: the Jazz chord symbol style only works with MuseJazz, period. If you wish to use any other font, you need to switch to the Standard still. The chord symbol style and the font are two totally different things otherwise, merely changing one shouldn't necessarily change the other, any more than changing from normal to italics also changes size.
But if you expect to often want to creat hybrid lead sheets like this, just do the change once then save your own template from it, and select it instead fo the standard jazz template next time.