NOTATIO

Thanks, that's a nice review.

It's very welcome that software can empower people to get their music onto the page in functional, reasonably attractive documents without too much effort.
Engravers will always want more, of course!

Boosey's Twitter handle has tweeted short snippets of B&H 'style', under the hashtag "BooseyFacts".

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BooseyFacts&src=typd

starting with those panels stuck to the sides of the score. Command (or CTRL) 0 to show/hide the panels. A pattern in Dorico's updates is emerging of basic or limited capability to start with, followed by increased flexibility at a later date. I'd be surprised if commercial pressure from Finale was...

One of the first music notation software packages was SCORE, developed for mainframes in the 1970s, before being released for DOS in 1986. To this day, a small band of devoted users still swear by this venerable software as ‘the best’, and they maintain ancient hardware to run it, or use virtual mac...

There's a new update to Robert Piechaud's November2 font (now v. 2.2).

It's mostly additional glyphs for use in Dorico. What an exciting time for updates!

Existing customers should get an email with a link to download.

Not version 3.0, but the Dorico team have announced a 'small' update: v2.2.10, which will be released in 'early Feb'. As well as many bug fixes, it contains a bunch of small productivity enhancements: auto-save; customizing the graphic export filenames; key shortcuts for flipping anything and toggli...

Florian has done it again, with another essential font, called Metrico. This one creates Metric Equations effortlessly.

https://github.com/fkretlow/metrico

Steinberg are having a 30% sale on Dorico until 29th Jan. https://www.steinberg.net/en/promotion/dorico_january_sale.html This includes cross-grades from Sibelius or Finale. In UK prices, this bring the cross-grade down from £239 to £167. Of course, this represents a £71.70 discount, and the upgrade...

FWIW, Maestro's rectangular breve is pretty ugly. Bravura's has nicer rounded edges.

Yes, the numbers-to-accidentals could be closed up a teeny-tiny bit. I tend to favour accidentals before the number, akin to before the notehead, but that may be a convention of my own making.

I find that in Dorico, you can use the 'naturally occurring' word extensions as useful lines with Fig Bass.