Articulation placement on custom notehead

[Headphonomenon]

I am looking for some help. I’ve created my first set of custom noteheads and everything seems to be working well except articulation placement. One notehead is wider than usual and causes articulations to be pulled (in this case) to the right of where they should be. I am wondering if there is any way to counteract this.

(I know I can beam to the rest but the composer also wants backwards facing beams on upbeat eighths. If I use the beam to rest version the flag is too long and doesn’t match the reverse version.)

In the screenshot the G# just after the barline.

Cutdown sample project attached.

Thanks in advance!

sample notehead set.dorico (1023.8 KB)

[meixner]

Does your composer client want all flags to look like stub beams?

[Headphonomenon]

Yes and facing backwards when on the back half of the subdivision. That was my reason for creating the notehead set. Maybe there is a better solution but I‘m not aware of one.

Thanks!

[meixner]

Would these be acceptable?

If so, it’s easy (no special notehead necessary):

• select a single note (only this one, no rests!)

• then – somewhat paradoxically – Beam it together. This creates a beam stub.

• the direction of the stub is controlled in Engrave Mode here:

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As in your example:

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If this works for you, mark it as Solution

[Headphonomenon]

YES! exactly what I need. Thanks so much for taking the time to read and respond. I thought about the partial beam direction but it was greyed out for single 8th notes. I never thought to beam them to themselves.
Fantastic!