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Just curious (as I don’t use Finale for work any more): Does the plugin find candidate measures in the selection too?

Yes, this is exactly what I’ve been doing in FInale and Sibelius for about 25 years now.

Some 20th century engravings (especially French) appear to be reproducing the spacing of a composer’s manuscript much more than 19th century engravings ever did. I can’t argue against the clarity in Messiæn scores, but that amount of space for a half note or quarter note does seem wasteful to me.

Sibelius’s default is Times 13-point relative to a 7mm staff. So I guess that would be 15¾ point on Finale’s 24-point staff. For tempos I prefer a less compact face than Times, such as Century or Oldstyle 7. Italics of the same point size are suitable. No boldface.

I also prefer A. The angle of the heavy strokes is more important to readability than the precise positioning of corners.

I follow older practice and use a roman font for markings that set the tempo and italics for tempo modifications.

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I continue to prefer the appearance of center alignment, both on principle and for visual beauty. This thread is making me reconsider issues of legibility, but it hasn’t convinced me. Especially erelievonen’s counterexample, above, please my eye. Also, we can’t assume that half noteheads and black n...