NOTATIO

In the 18th-century, proper nouns were always capitalized. Capo is a proper noun. I 'reckon' that most scores I've seen use an initial capital for 'absolute' Tempi, e.g. Allegro, Tempo 1° , etc; also for Repeat indications like Da Capo, Fine ; and lower case for most other things, including 'relativ...

Most significantly, for me, is that ARIA Player is now native, which has benefits in other realms...

The latest release of Finale is now Apple Silicon native. There are also some minor improvements and fixes.

https://www.finalemusic.com/blog/availa ... nale-v27-2

Another day, another music font.... I've just completed a SMuFL version of the handwritten font, Golden Age. (I've been in touch with the original creator, Don Rice.) I say 'completed', though I've had a bit of trouble with bounding boxes on Windows, cropping the glyphs, but think I've sorted it out...

Actually, the squish factor for hyphens could go up a bit more to 1/2.

I'm going to post on the Dorico forum, with a 'mini-article' about which of the options are most significant to achieving different results.

Here's a revised Dorico project file that I've recently prepared. It’s a ‘Factory defaults’ file, except for changes to the following Engraving Options: Beams Lyrics > Hyphens Notes > Stems Slurs based on the process I've described at the start of this thread, and the discussions that follow. Using ...

That looks fine, Ben. The factory needs to issue a recall on that default. In fairness, the factory default for space after dot is 1/2 space; I had it to 0 for some reason. Just using 1/8 was enough to fix it. They are "supposed" to be the width of a notehead, right? I guessed as much. A ...

Thanks all. I've decreased the length of the stub (down from the factory length of 1 and 5/24th spaces(!) to 7/8), and added some space using Dorico's new setting for 'space after dot', which has the effect of decreasing the angle and evening out the rhythm; all of which means I don't mind them as m...

Looking at the first example again, you’ll notice there’s an identical pair of notes in the second measure that looks totally fine by comparison. That groups beams seem to have a little more white space between them. Why is that? Because I adjusted it! First pair: default; second bar: increased sep...

After entering the following phrase, the beaming looked 'a bit wrong' to me on the selected (orange) notes. Screenshot 14.png Is this a candidate for thickening of the beams and/or widening the separation? I made an attempt to widen and re-position, as can be seen in the repeated example in the seco...