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operate on a "higher level" than our standard ones. They tend think in large numbers of tones when assigning stem direction What an excellent observation. Being a composer myself, I tend as well to "adjust" my scores in a way that breaks the standard rules, with my inner purpose...

Right, everything must be considered individually. See this example, tone Ab and B.
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I like the second example here. It speaks directly to me what voices are and what it shoudl be done.
The third example looks like "bad Finale"-hanglig ties.

Hm... sorry for confusion. I doubt that Chopin's slur is S shaped (now I realize it is The copyist's autograph you speak about, not Chopin). At least not that in RH. For me it looks as very delicate U shape. About The first edition, I meant by the French edition (that was the first picture displayed...

Agree with John.

The most important is to have interest in notation! But decades to master it....

Books: Gould, for starters.

Also, to study different editions of same composition is very helpful. IMSLP can offer that possibility.

In my opinion, your slur have a such unusual movement that I get lost in a way. It is visually interfering with one ledger line and two staff lines (LH) or three staff lines (RH), which is quite a lot for connecting one tone apart. I prefer the first edition, or Chopin's MS. And yes, it is not an ea...

I currently use - Autosave Script (this hits Cmd+S), attached - ChornoSync (with archive handling) Having both programs run at 5 minutes intervall, I create automatic versioning (999+ versions). I can simply go back in time and check exactly when something was done improperly, or to return to previo...

Thank you David.

I face problems with slurs that, by default placed under music, collide with lyrics (as in with low notes in Alto).

Do you think it is OK to place slurs ABOVE (not default) to minimize clutter and collisions with lyrics?

I think everything depends on who uses what for what purpose. Today, I added one extra staff in a very large score. That messed up grouping of other staves, and removed manually adjusted dynamics for several instruments. And who knows what more. My copyist and me are just discovering bad things afte...