I believe it greatly aids the readability if consecutive ledger lines are not allowed to touch and “converge”, but are always seperated (like in traditional scores). This is of course an enormous deal of work in big scores. In this old thread, a possible automatic handling of ledger line shortening was already discussed (which currently only works for 32nd notes): https://forums.steinberg.net/t/shortening-ledger-lines-in-runs-of-short-notes-is-it-supposed-to-work-like-this
May I entice you for one more case which is practically ubiquitous in traditional engraving, but is rarely ever talked about: shortening individual ledger lines, so that all but the top line are shortened even further. One example out of many is this passage in Henle’s engraving of Bach’s WTC 1 (Fugue in E flat major):
You can see it at the high C on beat 2, as well as at the low A in bar 2.
As I said, this is very much everywhere to be seen in traditional scores where different notes outside the staff follow each other, this is just one tiny example.
One may dream that this will one day be doable for notation software.
Best regards
Roland
