NOTATIO

Indeed, I'm very grateful for many of them (not least of all the independent scaling of accidentals). I wasn't suggesting that engraving has been overlooked; I was, in a clumsy way, trying to anticipate the area in which other features might be forthcoming...!

Dorico 4.2 has just been released: the main features are the addition of the percussion editor as part of the new Key editor toolkit, and the ability to copy MIDI edits when copying notes. There are the usual plethora of minor tweaks and fixes. (More punctuation, including elipses, are now ignored w...

MM have issued a blog about the 'forthcoming' Finale 27.3, which they say will include a number of Jari Williamsson's plug-ins, by default. These will be ARM-native for Apple Silicon Macs. https://www.finalemusic.com/blog/sneak-preview-plug-in-with-finale-v27-3/ While this is good news, it doesn't r...

I have finally finished my editions of all seven of Lotti's surviving complete operas. In 2009, as part of my PhD research, I began typing in the arias and recits from Teofane into individual Finale files, leaving me with the problem of how to assemble them into a complete score. "Some time pas...

I've been testing and refining my* SMuFL fonts, Sebastian and Golden Age, on Finale 27.2, and fixed a variety of local issues. Most of these were to do with 'baseline' positioning, e.g. where the glyph sits in relation to other objects, to make everything sit correctly with the defaults. So they sho...

There's a small update of Dorico out today; mostly full of minor fixes and improvements to the recent 'large' 4.1 update. But most of interest is something that addresses a long-standing limitation: Previously, manual edits to staff spacing would be undone if pages were manually inserted before them...

It may be entirely personal preference, but I find the 'verticality' of the last bar of A and B to be difficult to look at. Do you mean that you would prefer centered beaming? I know I would. Looking across your A and B examples, as the slurs become increasingly vertical, they seem to lose their pu...

Just a thought about the 8va thing. I'm not sure having seen the 8va symbol in older editions (because I'm not that familiar with them), but then it must surely have been an abbreviation of ottava , not of ottava alta as in modern notation programs? Abbreviations of this sort (usually in superscrip...

Just to update: v2.04 now has even better kerning(!), a few more characters (including the T caron for Kaťa Kabanová), some discretionary ligatures for fj and ij, and other improvements. https://github.com/benwiggy/nepomuk/releases I'm hoping that's probably reached a sufficient level of ... suffici...

The lopsided-ness comes from two things: firstly that the diamond is not as wide as the semibreve note; and also from the notional 'stem' to which the noteheads are attached.

Alternatively, you could create a playing technique with the diamond shape, which would always be centered on the notehead.