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a set of caprices by Spanish violinist Manuel Quiroga If it was an original manuscript of the composer I would not comment anything, very beautifully. But if you are doing that as an engraver/copyist, both comments above are very good to start with for improvements. If you cannot invest in a notati...

Wonderful, Jan! Apropos your focused conversation, the staff/system spacing is a very complex issue indeed. I use to to describe it as a BW-balance; it means that when looking at one page of music, there should not be black or white spots, but music should be placed "as dense as possible" ...

Thank you.

tisimst wrote: ↑22 Feb 2017, 15:55 Dorico
- Barlines: 0.16
- Heavy Barlines: 0.5
- Stafflines: 0.13
- Leger lines: 0.16
- Stems: 0.12

Interesting, that is the first thing I noticed with Dorico – boldness.
I am not sure why Dorico uses different line thickness for staff and stems, was it by purpose?

I can't answer directly where to put it in the band score, but another issue here is a comma – do not use it for the staff names.

As far I can suggest, the only other solution is to hide fewer empty staves in the relevant systems when this happens. At least you'll have staves and rests filling the page. That is an interesting option, indeed. But doesn't empty saves mean "someone has to play" at the beggining of the ...

When orchestral forces change from busy to loose, what is best way to deal with loose pages? I have systems which cannot be compressed to get two on one page, but when having larger distances between staves, in order to cover the whole page evenly, it looks bad (music looks unconnected, to loose, un...

Thank you, Ben! As far as i remember, Finale had about 10 years ago very heavy staff/stem lines. Personally I disliked it, but recently, I think about v2011 or later, they changed it to very thin. Now, the default in 2014 is very thin. Interesting, "European" style has more difference betw...

What are line thickness in different software by default? LP, Sibelius, Dorico?
In mm or similar.

For a stave of 6,7mm, line thickness 1,25sp - do you think it is thick?

Here is an earlier thread: https://notat.io/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=51#p660 What I can see, Peter W and Wess use 0,1 spaces for staff lines, correct? Than, what happens with reduced staff? Should it not be more bold? If we have 0,67 cm staff size, what would be a good frame to have staff line sizes?...

Are you able to do by your hand a copy of it (or similar to it)? I am not sure how it would look like, but that sounds very contemporary for the Baroque area. Very interesting, indeed.