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Very interesting thread. I'm glad to hear that the Steinberg program is trying to take the intricacies of accidental spacing, stacking and kerning into account. Excellent idea to shorten the left ledger lines on notes with accidentals. The problem I see in the example is that the amount of space all...

I've complained about the Finale defaults to MM on a number of occasions. There really is no excuse for a flagship notation program to provide users with default templates which are technically not well-thought-out at best and, at worst, not at all according to accepted notation standards. The idea ...

I definitely prefer your note spacing settings (and Finale's scaling factor of 1.618) to the Sibelius default. Of course, that'll vary depending on the note values in the music.
@RMK: can you use different spacing algorithms in Sibelius within one file? On different parts in a score with linked parts?

Occasionally the TGTools Add/Remove space in measure can help. Unfortunately it sometimes makes things worse.

I agree, both with Knut and Fred, and with John about the seasickness.

I agree with you completely, Fred! I've complained on the Finale forum as well as to MM about the excessive amount of space allotted by Finale to ledger lines, which often creates unpleasant, inconsistent spacing. I often turn off spacing for ledger lines and tweak where necessary. Sibelius definite...

I must say that I cursed under my breath when I saw the new Bärenreiter edition and it's not just because I was brought up on the first Bach Gesellschaft Edition. On a side note: I wonder how many modern pianists still play the beginning of the 2nd partita in the wrong rhythm (i.e. exactly as it's n...

Your Mozart example is more "ritardando con ad lib. rubato e a piacere molto" ..

or, when accompanying singers: 'business as usual'!

It surprises me how unable professional musicians often seem to be in judging the quality of printed music. They've apparently become so used to reading poorly-set scores that they no longer identify the problems they have during rehearsals or in learning a piece as at least partially having to do w...

One thing that trips me up (and a lot of other musicians) is reading music which is severely non-proportional. I'm kind of used to it with some types of music, as I often use facsimile editions of 17th, 18th and 19th century scores, but especially in certain types of rhythmic passages with alternati...