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MusicNotes use their own proprietary engraving software that is not available to any external customers. I can't quite remember exactly how things shook out, but I believe it's the Sunhawk Solero system, which has been through some complicated ownership.

Just to let you know that the Dorico 1.1 update has been released today. Full details on the Making Notes blog here.

Alas it won't be me personally in Glasgow that day (it was due to be me, but sadly one of the singers in my choir recently died suddenly and I will be directing the music at her memorial service) but my colleague John will be there, and I would encourage anybody who is on the fence about Dorico and ...

Unfortunately we do not yet have access to stylistic sets within arbitrary text fonts using the current font APIs available to us, though this is definitely something we plan to add in the future somehow. We can use the optical variants within the Bravura font set because we know what their code poi...

Oh, and just to say that the development build John was using for the Discover Dorico session last week does not use any of the things I have described above in its layout of chord symbols, e.g. it doesn't use the kerning pairs, it doesn't use the new accidental characters, and so on. So don't judge...

I will say that getting the typography of the chord symbols to look good has been at least as challenging as the underlying musical knowledge about how chords are put together and what they represent. Because it has been our ambition to be able to use any text font you like for chord symbols, this h...

The rounding in Sibelius's UI is caused by the fact that under the hood its resolution allows for increments of 1/32nd of a space, or 0.03125 in decimal. All of the fields in the UI are displayed to two decimal places, which means that they are rounded to the nearest hundredth.

As I have done in the thread on the Steinberg forum, allow me to register my objection to your characterisation of the lack of an editable ratio for spacing as a presumption that "our way is best". Adding options to software is not free: every option that is added takes time to implement, ...

For what it's worth, our new application also performs automatic optical adjustment of notes on opposite sides of a beam between staves. The results look more or less the same as Lilypond's defaults.

The big ones, aside from FontForge, are Glyphs (www.glyphsapp.com), FontLab (www.fontlab.com), and RoboFont (www.robofont.com). None of these are cheap, I'm afraid. We're using Glyphs and FontLab here (Glyphs for our UI font, and FontLab for our music fonts, mostly because I'm used to FontLab after ...