NOTATIO

John Ruggero wrote: ↑18 Dec 2023, 14:45 The excellence achieved by Dorico illustrates what can happen when first class programmers work in complete harmony with users toward a common goal.

Excellently said, John!
Happy New Year!

However I find the output much more pleasant than in Sibelius I have ever managed to make. It might be the fonts, the spacing algorithm or definition of shapes and curves. Perhaps also because many things are edited manually. Sibelius can achieve a cleaner result than Finale with a lot of manual ed...

Just be careful that the endpoint of the slur doesn’t cross the ledger lines, otherwise the S-shaped solution is very good. Great point, @MalteM.
In this specific case I would put the hairpins below, since in the middle they would require too much fiddling with background erasing.

Fair enough!

I've recently proofread a score whose manuscript made no difference between hyphen and extension underscore... the fact it was not in my native tongue made it unnecessarily complex!

John Ruggero wrote: ↑02 Dec 2023, 02:59 The slur often did double duty as a bracket and a slur. Context often makes clear what was intended. In other cases, we'll never know for sure, so I think it is better to leave it as it is.

Sadly not all softwares allow for creation of slur-like tuplet brackets.

If one has to be chosen, it would be the "unison1" version for me.
Condensing-wise, you could have Horns I-II-IV together and III alone.

Thank you anyway John.
I hope to find some enlightening on this topic, and will report back when I do.

When a string player—in my case, cellist—is taught about chords, we start by saying that we cannot play more than 2 strings at a time, and we therefore need some "escamotage". If 3 notes it should be either 2+2 with the middle in common or 1+2 (bass + 2 top). Very seldom we have 2+1 (2 low...

I'm quite surprised there's been no intervention to this.
As a cellist who has grown up with "sul..." and Roman numerals, this was a breakthrough!
And it's in a relatively modern time, 1830, when notation was already very similar to ours!