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Regarding the first post. My take on why the new beam starts at d5 is that the chord in this cadenza is still on the 6/4 (Bb/F). That is, I believe, the reason.

Would writing "Accidentals missing in the source and added by the editor" only in square brackets be a bad approach? Should they be "ficta" as well? Quite hard to do in a piano part if it is a chord where one note is missing the sharp, for example. If the accidental is obvious, ...

Yes indeed, very tricky questions. I guess the conclusion is that we really do not know, and that probably goes for beaming patterns in general as well. Working on old sources one might believe a certain beaming pattern really is important, just to see the exact same passage repeated later with a co...

What would be the reason for Bach to use a centered beam in bar 1 and not in bar 2? The music is the same.

Nicely done, everything is very clear. Anyway, some feedback and humble suggestions to improvements for the Oboe 1 part.

Maybe you could even consider fitting this music into three pages - right now the last page feels a bit empty.

FWIW, the “optical” center for the dynamic letters is a human-decided horizontal position that is “embedded” into the corresponding metadata file of the chosen SMuFL font. Personally, I always thought that the optical centers in Bravura were a little off, as you’ve suggested, John. Because it’s par...

hautbois baryton wrote: ↑07 Sep 2018, 15:42 But I simply can't use the application for any publishing right now in its current state.

Out of curiosity, what program do you work with and what style of music?

If I understand you correctly about middle line stem directions, they can actually be set in the preferences to always point down.

I agree that the accent thing is bad. I solved that for one project by creating a custom playing technique with an accent always placed outside staff.

To add to all this: We all have different demands, but personally I must say that the time I save using Dorico's superior layout features is worth every single little tweak I have to do, and for my taste I do not have to do that many. No doubt, I still have more control over small details settings i...