NOTATIO

In case there are any Finale users lurking and trying to make sense of any of this, the Stem Shortening setting is as below: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51558635978_1c6522ec6d_c.jpg Finale doesn't have this setting so the default in Finale would simply be 1,1. That is Finale starts shortenin...

Stem Shortening rules were -3 and 3. Shortened Stems rule was ON. One possible downside of these settings is that an upstem quarter on -3 with a normal 3.5 space stem now won't reach the top staff line. It's very tiny and virtually imperceptible at printed sizes, but if you zoom way in there's a ti...

Ignore that ^^^. Like I said, my beam settings seem to be changing daily right now, and here's the current version: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51556613917_9bbdf679ac_z.jpg New settings score even higher on the Ross test I posted earlier, 56/81, and fix the most egregious beaming errors like...

Here's what I currently have and what was in that last image I posted anyway:

The other thing that is somewhat confusing to me is that they clearly had one beaming concept in mind during development, then changed course and went a different way at some point before release. Here's an example from Daniel's development blog where he was discussing beam angles. I also added the ...

Here are my beam intervals. They are a bit mad, I gotta admit, I'd not entirely clear how these settings actually work. A beam angle of Straddle-Sit is 1/4 space for example so beam angles can only actually be adjusted in 1/4 space increments, yet an 1/8 space increment has an effect in this dialog...

Ok, I decided to play along as well. I wasn't really interested in trying to copy fonts, so these are just my standard fonts and sizes. There was no manual spacing adjustment other than a couple of Voice Column Index settings, no manual adjustment of any slurs except single grace note slurs, and no ...

Ben, did you tweak any of the grace note slurs where there's a single note in your K330 example? Or are those your defaults? I'm getting much worse results than you with my default grace note slurs so was just wondering if there was some setting I was missing.

I actually tried to spend some time tweaking my beam settings a couple of weeks ago. I tried to copy pages 104 and 105 of the Ross book to start by getting some good settings for two notes, but ended up quite frustrated. Here's as close as I could get just by using Engraving Options and no manual tw...

This is a great thread and I'm really curious what settings some others are using! IMO making the piano brace a glyph was a huge mistake and something that would probably force me to design my own glyph and bring it into Dorico unless an existing one could be edited within the program. For me one is...