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Bingo on the timp! Well done. I do have lots of other examples, though.

In fact, I'm having trouble finding a hairpin that doesn't behave in this way!

Gould says that a hairpin should go to the end of a note's duration, if the intention is to crescendo to the end of the note. Screenshot.png Ending the hairpin before the note would suggest that the last note doesn't get louder. However, in a lot of traditional engraving, I see hairpins that frequen...

I don't think a printer will warehouse copies for hire -- not without cost. If you hire scores and parts, you'll have to store them yourself. Hire Libraries are a product of the days when printing was expensive, and when there was considerable value tied up in the physical pages. 'Owning' them was a...

That's it. Thanks. I think it's a really helpful description.

I'm trying to find a quote by John Ruggero here, where he states that piano staves 'ought to look like they've been prised apart', or something.

I'm critiquing someone's work, and the mot juste would be ... well, juste.

Yes, you're right, but after running Patterson (with all default settings), I get this: Screenshot.png In Dorico, I can fix the error by setting the stem length for beamed 16ths to a value LONGER than that for 8ths! I don't know whether that will have some other effect. I'm sure that as ever, contex...

However, the issue here is whether the stem length in bar 4 and 5 should be the same; not what it is should be.

Ooooh. That's basically adding all the third beams without changing the length of the stem. I'm not sure I like that.

Ted Ross says "Approximately ½ to 1 space is added to the length of the stems for each beam more than two."

Here's a succession of beams for the same notes with different durations. Screenshot 9.png This is what Dorico does by default, and Finale (after running Patterson beams plug-in) does the same. Do we think that the two bars with dotted notes should have beams at the same length, or not? In the first...

This is where Dorico's Flows and Frames model excels. You can just create a Music Frame on the page, and specify the Flow and Players to be used in that Frame.