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2.10 Chord symbols
Changing the size of chord symbols To change the size of the chord text component of all chord symbols in your score, change the
To reset the appearance of a chord symbol, undoing any changes made in the Properties window, simply choose Layout Reset Design (shortcut Ctrl+Shift+D or D).
Changing the font used for chord symbols Sibelius only supports its own set of chord symbol fonts, which are the following six:
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Opus Chords
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Inkpen2 Chords
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Opus PlainChords
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Opus Chords Sans
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Opus Chords Sans Condensed
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Reprise Chords
Opus Chords is the standard chord symbol font. Opus PlainChords uses non-superscript accidentals and numbers. Opus Chords Sans is a sans serif font and is the default in house styles that use Arial as the main
text font. Opus Chords Sans Condensed is a condensed font and is useful in scores with many complex
chords, as it takes up less horizontal space. Inkpen2 Chords matches the Inkpen2 music font and is the default in Inkpen2 house styles. Reprise Chords matches the Reprise music font and is the default in Reprise house styles. Normally the most appropriate font will already be chosen based on your original choice of house style when you first created your score, but you can use any of these chord symbol fonts in any score. To do this: Choose House Style Edit Text Styles (shortcut Ctrl+Shift+Alt+T or T) Double-click the Chord symbols text style to edit it On the General tab, change to whichever of the fonts you want to use.
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point size defined for the Chord symbols text style – see Changing the font used for chord symbols below. To change the size of the chord text of a single chord symbol, select the chord symbol, open the Text panel of Properties, and adjust the Size there ( 5.17 Properties). To change the size of the chord diagram component of all chord symbols in your score, adjust the Default size slider on the Guitar page of House Style Engraving Rules. (This also affects the default size of any guitar scale diagrams in your score – 2.16 Guitar scale diagrams). To change the size of a single chord diagram, select the chord symbol, open the General panel of Properties, and adjust the Scale there ( 5.17 Properties).