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When I was a young piano student, decades ago, I really wondered what was the point of a tenuto dash. If all notes were to be played to their full length by default anyway, what does one need a tenuto mark for? No one could give me a really satisfactory answer back then. Only later I came to underst...

A question: In 1982 I wrote both accents > and ‘anti-accents’ which are a small shallow ‘u’; but if recopying it all I'd probably do without the anti-accents, which seem unnecessary or at least over-fussy (and potentially confusing): what do forum members think? In my thinking, an anti-accent sign ...

it does seems strange when a chord symbol runs into a resting measure. I don't see any problem with a chord symbol hanging over into a resting measure. Per definition, chord symbols remain valid also during rests, and chords might indeed be played during notated rests of a melody line, unless "...

I've been following the ongoing discussion... and wondering why everyone is so determined to keep the slurs above the left hand notes. When there are two voices with different stem directions on one staff, it is standard practice to draw all slurs of the lower voice under the staff, and never in the...

I must admit that I don't see what was the benefit of using TGTools in Fred's example, since John's last example on a Finale default file actually looks better to me. The only thing that I can see TGTools has done in Fred's example is to make the two longer slurs too flat in shape.

A single good reshaping seems applicable to all large intervals, so pasting a reshaped slur gives good results in a variety of cases. And even if not, it is often enough to nudge just one end of the slur, straight up or down - which is easy with the arrow keys - one staff space (or more), without n...

John's hand-adjusted slurs are definitely better! My approach to get some consistency in such slurs has been to draw one, hand-adjust it, and then copy that slur to all similar places. I'm not sure if it would help, but have you experimented with the Smart Slur option "Maximum slur angle in deg...

Had you been living some centuries ago, the situation would likely have been quite the opposite.

Fred G. Unn wrote: ↑18 Jul 2017, 20:24 Was there ever a consensus on whether it is a D# or D natural in the 3rd bar? I see some engravers adding a #, some a natural, and some just leaving it alone.

I don't know about consensus, but D# must be the musically correct note (in this style and context).

Yet the fonts shown are the defaults, which is part of the point here. Engravers were asked to use defaults to the extent, but not beyond the extent, that they were comfortable with their chosen program's defaults. As John Ruggero already pointed out, Maestro is the Finale default font, not Engrave...