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I agree with Fred G. Unn.
Every time I changed my settings to solve a specific issue, it caused the 80%-ish very good slurs to suddenly look incredibly bad.
For sure I could still improve something here and there, but one needs to be given the luxury to stop and experiment ...

Slurs become problematic when the interval between first and last note gets big. At that point, no setting will help or, if it will, all other scenarios will be scrambled. In music for strings, when string-crossing passages can get more than two octaves between the lowest and highest note, things wi...

I agree ...
I spend a very considerable amount of time every day editing slurs' curves ...
One must believe this is very complex to achieve. Oh ... and if you dissect a Sibelius slur in Illustrator, you get three objects one on top of the other!!

In Rozsa's Cello Concerto's piano reduction, the final beating of the "frusta" (in Italian, don't know how to say it in English, it's the same of the opening of Ravel Piano Concerto in G) is written with an instruction for the pianist to clap their hands. Anyway, (nerd) cellist here: if yo...

Very insightful indeed, John! Playing my favourite devil's advocate game again: in the first example, let's imagine the engraver didn't expand the space before the fermata. Where would have he placed the SF in your opinion? Just an hypothesis that the spacing may have actually been reserved for the ...

When building PDFs that need foldout pages, I usually place every foldout page at the end of the document, with a blank page behind it (unless it is a recto-verso foldout like one see in, f.e., Barenreiter's Popper Cello Etudes op 73). Like this they will print recto-verso the main pages and then ha...

Fascinating!
Thank you for sharing!

I couldn't agree more. Yesterday I was proofreading an upcoming edition and even the horizontal spacing affected the stem length and beam angle of exactly equal situations. For example, in a system with only 3 bars (the first system), longer stems were preferable, while 4 bars and more cramped situa...

*Much to learn still I have* would a wise master say! In this last example it bothers somewhat less because the notes are still within the staff. When I saw Debussy’s Suite (or Ravel in several points) showing outward pointing notes from the 5th line up without neither rest not anything else below i...

I'm now hopelessly into the rabbit hole! I've copied your excerpt from Beethoven 109 into Dorico and played a bit with the voicing. Here are my notes/questions on this: Screenshot 2025-05-28 alle 10.49.46.png b 87 if the B is the tenor voice, why is there a rest in the left-hand, below the bass note...