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I used to use it quite a lot for engraving a mix of choral, piano, and solo works. I’ve had less frequent opportunity recently. Still my go-to software of choice though when I really want to control things. If I need to pound something out quickly and don’t care how it looks, I will use MuseScore ...

Just out of curiosity, for the symbols you dislike in these other fonts, do you have genuine SCORE specimens that show the same symbols more favorably?

I’ve found that it’s more about x-height (or lower case letter height) than capital letter height. The value that always looks the most cohesive to me is an x-height around 1-staff space. There’s definitely some wiggle room there, a bit more (larger font size) still works well, a bit less (smaller ...

If you’re using Glyphs, then you might be interested in the scripts already created for it, found on GitHub. I never used Glyphs when I did my MTF work, so I can’t vouch for them, but they might be enough to get you what you need.

https://www.github.com/steinbergmedia/smufl

I’m digging from my memory, but I believe Dorico mostly only uses the glyph’s bounding boxes directly from the font and not even from the json file. When Daniel Spreadbury was coming up with SMuFL, he was envisioning how programs *might* access the data and therefore provided a few different options ...

In my experience, there are usually only two scenarios where I would split a choral bar like you want to do:

1. At the very beginning (a pickup measure)
2. In a hymnal (to show consistent phrasing from system to system)

Outside of that, I do not recommend splitting it up. Leave the measures intact ...

Great work, Ben! Looks like a wonderful addition for the industry.

With two voices, I would never interpret that as a staccato (since it should always be pushed outside to the stem), but someone might. That’s a tough one. Might be best to push the dot just a hair to the right to give it that extra clarity without moving it too far from the notehead it goes with.

Completely agree, benwiggy.

And here's a post I did on a separate topic that is related to your query:

viewtopic.php?p=10221#p10221