I wonder if this is a bug or expected behaviour: tied chords don’t flip at once as the video shows:
While I understand that this might be how this feature should behave (e.g. in context with a second voice that disappears after the first chord), it is certainly quite cumbersome to get the second chord flipped.
The steps that need to be taken involve:
(mouse) select all notes of first chord
untie
(mouse) select the second chord (one note is enough)
flip the stem (via keyboard)
(mouse) select all notes of the first chord again
tie the chords again
Or do I miss a certain input feature that makes this procedure easier/shorter?
Anyway, the end result is not perfectly layouted. In the screenshot the b flat is somewhat offset to the left:
But as for the end-result: Is this something you encounter, too? Or is it a problem only I might have? (The score was generated from a MuxicXML import.)
It’s probably avoiding the (unnecessary) Db at the bottom of the chord. Try hiding that. (And that’ll only be there because of your Preferences > MusicXML Import > Accidental visibility).
What do you mean by “not perfectly placed”? If you mean that the down-stem chord is shifted slightly to the right of the up-stem B flat, then that is the correct appearance. If the down-stem chord were not shifted slightly to the right, you wouldn’t at a glance be able to tell which of the notes are in the up-stem voice and which are in the down-stem voice.
You can adjust the various default gaps Dorico uses for offsetting voices on the Voices page of Notation Options.
Hmm… in this case I do not agree. Given that all 4 notes of the previous chord are tied, it is pretty clear to which voice the b-flat belongs.
But I do see the reason for situations, where there are not tied chords involved.