Hi everybody, I couldn’t find this answer easily on Google or on this forum, so I thought I’d ask.
In this musical example, I need to enter the right hand part in 3 voices, since they all do slightly different things:
Here’s the original:
When I do this, Dorico places the downward-going beams slighly askew to each other.
Is there a way to manually align these beams so they overlap?
You could only use the 3rd voice for the minim F, and leave the beamed group in one voice.
You can tie notes in separate voices together, just make sure both notes are explicitly selected before adding the tie.
If you enter the RH notes in just 2 voices and don’t tie the first beat to the second, then you can add the ties exactly where you want them, even between voices, by Ctrl+clicking the notes you want to tie. I did have to also flip the tie between the half note and quarter note D# (in the Properties panel).
Before:
After:
These are always fun… this is my feeble attempt. I’m sure some power-engraver can make the LH look more respectable.
Ah! This is a super interesting solution! Thank you!
My modifications to the 8th beam in the left hand were done in Engrave mode. Select it and you can move it up and down. I had to play with voice col index to get the first Eb under the beam to the other side of quarter note (start offset was -3.5/16). The quarter Eb/F had a voice col index of 2.
This took 1 minute. I’m sure more experienced engravers can make that pretty.
