Tommaso Scarabino,

I could be wrong here, but I think that you need the chord style Italian.

And I think that you are confusing the Italian chord style with Finale’s chord style Solfeggio.

Italian chord style and Solfeggio chord style are two different things.

The attached graphics show the difference.

All the examples below show the chords C - Am - F.

Note what happens, when the key signature is 1 flat.

The chord style Solfeggio uses relative chord roots - similar to the chord styles Roman and Nashville.

Hello Peter,

exactly, the Italian style chord style is what I'm requesting. It is different from the traditional Solfeggio, is similar but the difference in the G and B notes.

In the screenshot you attach, in the Italian staff doesn't appear the Sol (that in traditional solfeggio is called "So") and the Si (that the traditional solfeggio is called "Ti").

The workaround today is the installation of fonts that are:

1) "MusicChordSpanish" that is corrupted if I digit Bb/D (Sib/Re)

2) "FC" that give Ré (with the accent)

3) "Times Italian Chords" that limit us to have the only Times New Roman font

A native Finale Modern Italian Solfeggio (that isn't used only in Italy) in the menu of Chord Styles could allow us to have on the fly what we need and with the ability to decide a different font and not only a Times or Arial, and, first of all, without complicated workarounds that not all user can have the patience to do.

Thanks for your reply

… exactly, the Italian style chord style is what I'm requesting. It is different from the traditional Solfeggio, is similar but the difference in the G and B notes …

The difference is (much) more than the G and B notes.

Finale’s chord style Solfeggio uses relative chord roots - similar to the chord styles Roman and Nashville.

In my example the Solfeggio chords {C - Am - F} appear as {So - Mim - Do} when the key signature is 1 flat.

Because the key signature is 1 flat, Do means F.

That is not what you need, I think.

The difference is (much) more than the G and B notes.

Finale’s chord style Solfeggio uses relative chord roots - similar to the chord styles Roman and Nashville.

In my example the Solfeggio chords {C - Am - F} appear as {So - Mim - Do} when the key signature is 1 flat.

Because the key signature is 1 flat, Do means F.

The differences you highlighted are right, very explanatory.
My request is that can be added a style that can translate the chords into Italian (commonly European), which is commonly called solfeggio style but which is different from the orthodox meaning given in Finale and which you have clearly stated.
As ignorant as I am on the subject of programming, I think it is not a request that may require excessive changes to a software code, at least so I think.

I believe that Finale can offer this possibility in a native way in the same way with which, for years now, has been given in equally popular notation software that I mentioned in original post.

The differences you have highlighted are of crucial importance for the correct interpretation of my request. Thanks

The request for Italian (= Spanish, Romanian, Dutch in Belgium, Lithuanian and more, all using Re) and French chord style (with Ré) has been made by many users for years and has never been heard by MakeMusic. As you say, it doesn't look like a complicated thing to implement.

3 styles could be added, as Portuguese adds some accents : Dó, Ré, Fá, Lá

If you make the sum of the populations of all this countries, you probably surpass English...

(Maybe you could clarify the request in the title of this thread)

P.S. 1 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_signature_names_and_translations

P.S. 2 : MakeMusic recently released a Spanish version of Finale. I would be curious to see if they included the Italian/Spanish chord style.

My thoughts on this (for years):

Finale is all about options.

For years users have been using Finale’s many options very creatively, to find clever problem solutions that the Finale programmers had never thought of.

We have the option of creating a custom staff style (actually we can create multiple custom staff styles).

But as the program works now, the user can not customize Finale’s chord styles.

How about a similar option for chord styles?

Apart from meeting the requests for some specific chord styles, like Italian, French, and Portuguese, this also might lead to new solutions for some completely different layout problems.

Good suggestion, Peter, let's hope MM finally hears it (at last, because I have seen it from you for years)...

“How about a similar option for chord styles?

Could be a great solution that can open new useful scenario