How can I write a complex composite chord in Noteflight?

Question

In functional harmony analysis, the provided image demonstrates a method of representing (one of) the true function(s) of the diminished chord: a dominant seventh flat ninth with no root note and the third in the bass.

^{Example of what a dominant seventh flat ninth with no root and third in bass could look like. Made using GIMP. Apologies for the fake super-/subscripts.}

Noteflight does have a link to this quite helpful hotkeys guide, but the only kind of chords I have been able to create which has a backslash over the main part, are chords written as degrees (e.g. I, ii, V7 and so forth), i.e. \6 to represent a missing sixth. (This does not appear to work with Roman numerals – which are treated as letters).

Is there any way to write a stacked chord which strikes out the main part of the chord with a slash or backslash and adds a specific number or letter as the bass?

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Also, it bugs me immensely that they do not use true super-/subscripts for those symbols, instead using resized regular numbers, but that’s a pet peeve for another day. (Well, actually it’s a big one, but I’ll leave it at that.)

Answer 1

Unfortunately, there is no such feature native to Noteflight. Not only is the notation not natively supported in Noteflight, but the Unicode functionality required to display a capital D with slash through it, is also not supported.

For example, to display a capital D (U+0044) with a slash through it, you can use a Unicode combining character. U+0338 is the particular slash you are looking for.

Source: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/654793/how-to-place-a-slash-over-the-letter-%C3%B0

Then, you can combine these two characters together by using the dev tools console in a browser such as Chrome, Firefox or Microsoft Edge. Using the copy function, you can place the ̸D character in your clipboard. This is the line of code you would run: copy('\u0338\u0044');

Then after running this code, you can paste the character wherever you like, but support will vary.

Source: https://superuser.com/questions/47420/insert-unicode-characters-via-the-keyboard/246660#246660

And unfortunately, as stated earlier, it is not supported in Noteflight, so this is what it looks like placed into a chord symbol:

Additionally, even StackExchange displays it in this same incorrect way, if you don't use preformatted text.

Example: ̸D

So essentially, your only option is to fake it.

First, you can start by inputting what you can do in Noteflight natively, by placing a chord symbol, and then typing: D7 b9 (listing the first number attached to the letter, and then using spaces will make the chord symbol be displayed using a more figured bass styled notation, but not all the features from Noteflight's figured bass functionality are available).

Then add performance text, enter the number 3, and drag it below the letter D, and then add another performance text, put a single forward slash, and then drag it over the letter D. Your final result should like this:

So, it's not the real thing, but it at least gives an option (if not a tedious one) for displaying this notation.