Yes, the defaults were so poor that they are all manually altered. Also the mid-staff tie in 13, the 'editorial' slur in b. 12, and the tie into the flag in bar 30. Apart from those, all slurs are defined by the settings.Fred G. Unn wrote: ↑03 Oct 2021, 23:37 Ben, did you tweak any of the grace note slurs where there's a single note in your K330 example? Or are those your defaults? I'm getting much worse results than you with my default grace note slurs so was just wondering if there was some setting I was missing.
I have managed to achieve some improvement to grace note slurs by setting the vertical offset to 1 space, which simply stops it going too high. Here are some grace-note slurs with no manual adjustments:
Those values work better for some intervals than others. TBH, for the large intervals, like b.5, I've since used LV ties (though that's going to bite when playback is supported!)
I did try to test the Ross examples with the settings I'd created from following the Henle example (but not quite as methodically as you've done). It doesn't always match (and I dare say that Henle don't follow Ross, either); but where it doesn't, it's still pretty good. Henle seems to favour beams at a smaller angle, with fewer jumps across a space.
My beam settings fix the "inconsistent horizontal beams" complaint, which you may remember on the Dorico forum. I've had to fiddle with stem lengths, Stem Shortening rules (whose options I don't quite understand), as well as the beam intervals. The latter are all much lower than the factory settings.
There's definitely some things that need developer attention: particularly grace note slurs, slurs to flags, and a few other odd corners.