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besides, from the Schirmer scores I have, they are THE LAST people I would look to as any sort of reference in engraving. Most of the score they do really are badly engraved.

I went through a couple of piano scores by different editors (some Ravel and some Prokofiev), and so far only staccato marks were used within the staff, everything else was above or below. I'm not a fan of the look of accents and such within the staff. I find it makes the staff look cluttered and is...

measure 4 also has a rather odd collision between the inner voice beam and the ledger lines below the staff.

I believe it's Dorico's default music font, Bravura.
For text I use Nepomuk

the 2nd beat is easy: since the default normal number of notes covering that beat is three eighths, the the correct value is four of whatever is CLOSEST in rhythmic value to three eighths. if you divided the 2nd beat into sixteenth notes, you would get six of them. if you divided the 2nd beat into e...

@Hotboy.baritone ;) I'll look at your settings later and see how they compare to mine. I might adopt thicker slur ends. Years of having Finale's hyper-delicate slur ends have probably skewed how I see them. meanwhile, our new adopted fur-daughter requires almost my complete attention at all times (s...

Come to think of it, parentheses around metronome indications could be ambiguous. Without them, the marking seems to take on more force, as if the composer wants the music at that tempo and no other. Within parentheses they might seem to be more of a suggestion. the reason my numeric marking is in ...

I did at one point have little horizontal brackets (there are spots where there were multiple notes) or just m.d. indications, but quite honestly, I find the extraneous text to be more distracting than anything. I try to keep hands separated one to a staff, at least, where possible and logical. Bein...

I'm a bit torn here. normally, I'd use a centered beam, like in the first example, but I find that the stems often tend to be too short when using this option. If I try and keep the beam direction in concordance with the direction of the notes, this means it has to slant downward. But to get a longe...

I started piano the traditional way, at age 6.
within 6 months I was playing a Chopin prelude, the next year some Beethoven.

What I'm seeing here is, and I agree 100% with RMK, an "inventor" who doesn't understand music nor pedagogy inventing an answer to a question nobody asked.