User manual

PREREQUISITE
● If you want to show chord diagrams using a custom fretted instrument tuning, you have
imported the tuning or changed the tuning of a fretted instrument in the project accordingly.
● We recommend that you have input chord symbols and changed the shape of any chord
symbols you want to appear with a specic voicing.
NOTE
It is customary not to show chord diagrams alongside chord symbols when showing a
used chord diagrams grid, and you cannot change the chord diagram shape when chord
diagrams are hidden.
PROCEDURE
1.
Press Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-L to open Layout Options.
2.
In the Layouts list, select the layouts in which you want to hide/show used chord diagrams
grids at the start of ows.
By default, the layout currently open in the music area is selected when you open the dialog.
You can select other layouts by using the selection options in the action bar,
Shift -clicking
adjacent layouts, and Ctrl/Cmd -clicking individual layouts.
3. Click Chord Symbols and Diagrams in the category list.
4. In the Chord Diagrams section, activate/deactivate Show chord diagrams used at start of
ow.
5. Optional: Change the settings for used chord diagrams grids as required.
For example, you can change the fretted instrument tuning for chord diagrams in the grid,
their scale size, and the distance between chord diagrams and/or rows of chord diagrams.
6. Click Apply, then Close.
RESULT
Chord diagrams for all chord symbols used in the ow are shown in a grid above the start of each
ow in the selected layouts, and are positioned according to the settings for the selected layouts.
If
ow headings are shown, the used chord diagrams grid appears below them. The order of
chord diagrams in the grid is determined by the order in which they rst appear in the ow. Each
different voicing appears as a separate chord diagram but each voicing appears only once in the
grid.
If you input more chord symbols or change the voicing of existing chord diagrams, the used
chord diagrams grids update automatically to include them.
NOTE
●
Even if no chord symbols exist in a ow, vertical space for the used chord diagrams grid is
added at the start of the
ow.
●
You cannot select or edit individual chord diagrams in used chord diagrams grids.
AFTER COMPLETING THIS TASK
You can change the margins of pages, music frames, and/or ow headings if required to
accommodate used chord diagrams grids.
RELATED LINKS
Edit Strings and Tuning dialog on page 116
Changing the open pitches of fretted instrument strings on page 118
Chord diagrams
Hiding/Showing used chord diagrams grids
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Dorico Elements 3.5.12