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most , if not all, the art songs in my library (mostly French composers) have the poet's name opposite the composer's, at the same vertical level.
I've never seen a score with the poet's name below the title.

this is an image I took from one of my scores to post on the Dorico forum (I had some questions about something)

as far as I can tell, SVG is one of the formats available for graphic slice export.

count me in the opposite direction.
I far prefer the composer name to be below the title and sub-title, but higher than any other information (ie: movement number).
but that's just moi.

Dorico does something called "slices", which are whatever you choose from the score page to export as a graphic.
Is that what you're asking about?
there are multiple choices of output file to choose from.

there doesn't seem to be a single software package that handles grace note slurs universally correctly.
one might get a particular type of grace note slur correct while the others don't, but then it will err for another type of grace note.

so does moving the notes from one staff to the other (the older convention) seem"outdated" in your opinion? or still acceptable? I'm trying to decide whether or not I should consider taking on the "newer" way of doing things. Looking at the piano reduction of my viola concerto, I...

a question: my first reaction, were I to engrave this, would be to leave the bottom staff as a bass clef, and simply more the high left hand notes up into the 2nd voice of the upper staff, since there's room. Would this not be an option? Or are there reasons not to do this? In some piano scores I ha...

Sorry, but I'm reading a whole load of horse-pucky in that Henle blog post.

Hopefully, the pianist will not interpret Ped. al fine to mean Ped. sempre. Beethoven wrote: Si dove suonare tutto questo pezza delicatissimamente e senza sordini (=dampers off the strings) sempre pianissimo e senza sordini over the opening measures of the Moonlight Sonata and musicians are still d...

Octo, no, for the time being, hairpins do not have a mask feature for erasing background elements. I wonder, would crossing a bunch of lines (the staff) be a better solution than crossing a single line (the glissando line)? In a piano piece I engraved I did cross a staff with a hairpin, but it was a...