NOTATIO

In the full orchestral score, do we group with sub-bracket Oboes with English Horn, Bassoons with Contrabassoon and Clarinets with Bass Clarinet?

As far as a remember 'Flattened beams based on standard note' option was added to produce more pleasant, flatter beams. Since I use Patterson Beams consistently, I always have this setting at 'Flatten beams based on extreme note', because the plug-in requires it for best results. Good to know. Now ...

I noticed this option with beams, which I have never used before. shot 4.jpg So far, the default in Finale is "Standard Note", but when I changed to "Extreme Note" I noticed a very pleasant output. Another option is slope . More slope seems to produce more warm output, such as sl...

Whoh - that is very interesting!
I noticed the same with Finale and Sibelius. So, basically, Dorico doesn't differ here?
Here is Finale, the compressed spacing:

One thing might be very considerable here: why not to create documents with the same fonts? I dislike Finale with Engraver (at this size, perhaps 22 pt is better), and like MuseScore 2 output. I also dislike Opus font... So my judging is very much based on that. That would be hard to do. Not many o...

FWIW, LilyPond follows the same logic as Dorico. MuseScore seems to follow Finale's approach by spacing the lower staff notes more evenly and pushing the first pair of 16th notes together. I'm not a computer with Sibelius or SCORE to see what they do. Any takers? This is the default output in Sibel...

I think that the spacing is determined by the smallest value, even when they are moved. Right?

By the default?

From another thread: Sorry, John. I missed that because of your positive first reaction. Anyway, Dorico does indeed provide settings for this as well as a couple related cases: Skjermbilde 2016-10-24 kl. 23.19.55.png How does Dorico handle this by default? I think Finale makes mistake by forcing :3 ...

One thing might be very considerable here: why not to create documents with the same fonts? I dislike Finale with Engraver (at this size, perhaps 22 pt is better), and like MuseScore 2 output. I also dislike Opus font...
So my judging is very much based on that.