There is plenty of room to improve Finale - kerning

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There is plenty of room to improve Finale - kerning

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How about Product A, B, C or D?
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Re: There is plenty of room to improve Finale - kerning

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OCTO wrote:How about Product A, B, C or D?
That is Product B ;)
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Re: There is plenty of room to improve Finale - kerning

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Here's Dorico with 'Optical spacing for beams between staves' checked:
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As pointed out in a previous thread, Dorico, like Lilypond, handles the notes within each beam group nicely, but not the notes surrounding each group.

In this particular case, I am not wild about the Dorico's default beam placement either, which seems to be based on centering the beams between the staves.
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Here's Product C:
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Re: There is plenty of room to improve Finale - kerning

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Is that all default settings tisimst?
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Pretty much! The only thing I had to do was give it permission to put the second beam between the staves (it chose to put it above the group for some reason), but everything else is default settings--beam slopes/positions, stem positions, etc.
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What about IF your measure is much wider than regular? Double length?
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Here's two other expanded measure lengths for comparison with the default spacing (top):
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I suspect Dorico will do the same, but I'm not at my normal computer to check.
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Here's Product E (same spacing at any measure width):
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Re: There is plenty of room to improve Finale - kerning

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+1 OCTO. It is really disgraceful that Finale cannot handle something like this after all of these years.

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Knut wrote:I am not wild about the Dorico's default beam placement either, which seems to be based on centering the beams between the staves.
Would it make a difference if you moved the staves closer together? Does Dorico do a better job? But maybe Dorico cannot yet do that?

Also, I do want to reiterate that the two staves of piano music appear best "forced' apart by what is between them; otherwise there is too much white space on the page and also harder to read.
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