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But if not, my mistake illustrates that I'm to used to seeing them perfectly aligned to really be bothered by, or even noticing it in most cases. Sorry, Knut. I'm thinking I wasn't clear enough in my first post. So please bear with me and let me clarify: In cases A and B, the note heads ARE perfect...

I suspect I'll find the compensation in your screenshot to be too much, but it's har to tell with the vertical guidelines going through the staves. Could you add a screenshot without the guidelines to your post? I am glad that you can relate to this, Knut, but I am not sure I understand your reques...

I think that the LilyPond LH spacing would look even better if the second 1/8th in each pair were moved slightly to the left. There is an optical illusion created between the 16ths and the 8th because the stems are on different sides of the note heads. This pulls the eye in a diagonal as if the lowe...

Should the two hands be really synchronized? The chromaticism suggests that the timing doesn’t much matter, and the original beaming that the gesture should have some swoop. I think the hands should be synchronized and have never heard it played otherwise. But I agree with the swoop. It's in the Gy...

Keep in mind that Finale, Sibelius and MuseScore don't justify that uneven 16-notes even without the third voice in 8-notes. For me it doesn't look good. The fact that there are no accidentals involved in the example makes the unevenness stand out even more. Accidentals can distract and could be fu...

Knut: Thing is, this has more to do with the font (i.e., the angle of the noteheads) than anything else. This points up an interesting issue about seconds with fonts that have slightish note heads like Bravura and Maestro: they often need their stems aligned. Here are aligned stems (and even slightl...

As a side note, you might get away with the best of both worlds with a little bit of fudge-factor by shifting the second 16th slightly right and the fourth 16th slightly left to even out those 16th runs: Fudge-factoring was an important part of the plate engravers arsenal because of some built-in i...

In the case of this guitar excerpt, I notice it is certainly harder for me to read the 32nd-note run at sight without the beam break. In your Bach excerpt mm. 3 and 18 are easy because they’re completely scalar; m. 20 is harder to parse at first, but then it’s a sequence, so the pattern gets ingrai...

I agree with MJCube. Finale's spacing of the seconds with the stems aligning, seems standard to me. Dorico's handling of the general spacing is also standard. I don't understand why Dorico would have its default for seconds set so wide because it exaggerates the unevenness of the 1/8th notes, when i...

Those are global settings, and while I'm certain that there are some situations where adjustments are needed, I think the right values here should take care of the vast majority of cases. I am sure that you are right; but unfortunately it's the non-confoming situations that would be the show-stoppe...