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8 or 8:12 or 8:3

I owned one of these in the 70's. I might still have it - buried somewhere.

It was fine for sketching but you couldn't use it on onion skins because the ink wasn't dark enough. Even on paper, the staff lines were rather thick and uneven.

I just finished a large project in Dorico that required this.

Three separate percussion parts and a percussion score combining all the instruments, all in the same file.

Please, librarians have enough to do. Don't make them extract custom parts as well. I often make individual percsussion parts as well as a percussion score so the principal has the flexibility to reassign parts or use a different number of players than specified. The tricky part is arranging for goo...

NeeraWM wrote: ↑21 Oct 2023, 08:08
Musicians may not complain, but they certainly notice when something is off, or looks strange. It is just not their top priority to report.

You have obviously never worked as an orchestral librarian!

The first example looks better to me, but you should adjust the staccato dots so that they are parallell to the gliss. line.

From the G. Schirmer Manual of Style and Usage (Second edition):

"We do not use dashed ties for tremolandi, trills or artificial harmonics".

IMO totally unnecessary and just adds clutter.

If it is imdeed C-natural, than the auxilliary note would better be spelled as a D-flat. Otherwise you definitely need the natural. To be extra clear, the bottom C should also have a natural.

Depending on the tempo, it might be clearer to tie the two C-naturals.

Have you tried using a multi-arced slur?