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Yes, even Dorico (4.3) has a slightly different approach, both to accidental stacking (can be changed to automatically match the others), chord stacking, and ties:

This is really a curious example of what apps will choose to do by default and what fixes might be required. Here's what MS4 does by default. Seems like it could do a bit better job balancing out the inter-tie spacing. No reason in my mind to have them appear in pairs. I do like the tighter nesting ...

Oh, yes, please correct this. The generally accepted result for almost any chord, if it’s the only “voice” on the staff, is to have the group of ties bend around the vertical middle of the chord, the top half of note ties bend up, the bottom half bend down. This would solve both cases quite nicely. ...

Scores with this format (i.e., hymnnals) do tend to bend the rules a bit on this, but for a couple of useful reasons. Most folks who sing these are not professionals and need less busy notation. Also, but kind of the same reason, since music like this is also what is used for the accompaniment, the ...

Yep, as long as it’s still absolutely clear what the accidental is and what the symbol crossing through it is, I have no problem with the occasional crossing.

Awesome work, LP dev team! This amazing tool just keeps getting better and better.

Agreed, John. FWIW, here's what the same passage looks like with the staff lines hidden behind the beams, which I am really liking: beaming-with-staff-lines-removed-behind-beams.png In a way, since our eyes are getting more used to not beaming strategies that keep staff lines from appearing behind b...

Great thoughts, John. I think your settings have one other advantage over some of these other defaults and that is thicker beams/smaller beam-gaps. I noticed the same thing in some older printed scores I saw last night. The slightly thicker beams seem to make the crossing staff lines to be less prom...

This is a very interesting example, John. For what it's worth, I think we've overlooked an engraving style that makes the Peters edition more visually clean than it should be under normal circumstances. To illustrate, if you re-enter the line with the Peters beams in the same place, you'll notice th...

I have no problem with slurs crossing through the stem of the flat. In fact, I find the "whiteout" style in the top two examples more visually distracting. I think it's because the slur is relatively short that it kind of looks like a pair of articulations rather than a broken slur. Others...