NOTATIO

Accents appearing within the staff I've noted that the accents stay outside the staff when using other SMuFL fonts, such as MTF-Cadence. So it may be possible to over-ride this setting -- admittedly in a fiddly XML file somewhere, or in the font itself. The reason I won't use D for engraving is the...

That is encouraging because it might not be too difficult for Dorico to add greater control in a user-friendly way. The 'direction' of Dorico's feature implementation seems to suggest much more control of all elements as time goes by. The Performance Techniques editor, roughly analogous with Finale...

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...

I think it's been often said here that Finale's default settings for slurs could also do with some adjustment. (And indeed, I've followed advice here for improving the values.)

Hyphenation should be done to dictionary word divisions, usually split along etymological and phonetic grounds. Consonants should NEVER be placed "where they sound", which is a hideous trend in recent years. Jucio Brennan's hyphenator is not infallible, though it seems to get it right here...

And the 2.1 update is released today. Many bug fixes and improvements to previous limitations, as well as nice new features in playback and layout. https://www.scoringnotes.com/reviews/dorico-2-1-released/ Another update planned for later in the year, then it'll be Dorico 3 next year. If that is any...

One thing I would say: you can't get it all on one page, so why not use the second a bit more? Increase the distance between the two staves (which will give the different lyric lines room to breathe). Then you'll have four systems on page 1 and 3 on page 2. It would also mean not turning the page fo...

I think this is from the 1950s. (Stainer & Bell's current address is N3, so that might be some indication.) I've seen similar scores for BBC Singers music from the 50s. It's got to be from a time when it was feasible to print the header and footer with handwritten music.

I'm trying to think of another example, where I have seen em dashes used within lyric lines. And I can't come up with a single one. Which may be indicative of something in itself.

It looks excellent for music use and similar to that used by at least Durand in the past. It does indeed look like a lovely font to accompany music. I'll be interested when the other styles have been made. However, of all the publishers I'd want to emulate, I'm not sure Durand is on the list..... :...