Hi. How can I make the first secondary beam to go down?
It’s basically a bug. You may have luck cross-staffing the other way (starting in the top staff rather than the bottom staff, or vice-versa) but equally you may not.
The team are aware of it and it’s on the list of things to do (and has been for a while) - it certainly hasn’t been fixed in v2.0.
After 21 scenes and recitatives, Dorico (1.2) was perfect so far. In the last one, this thing happens…
Anyone knows a workaround?
There genuinely isn’t one. I’m sorry.
I managed to do it. Thanks for your help.
How? I really really would like to know!
And so would I!
Hi guys, sorry for the late response. I was in a hurry to finish this score.
Once I read in the MuseScore forum: “Where there’s a will, there’s a way”. 
My workaround has some assumptions:
- I don’t care about playback at all (at least in this work);
- My goal is always to get the best visual results possible, so what is important to me is what I can get, no matter how;
- It may not be a good workaround, since it is not a default behavior of Dorico;
- It may not be possible to do in other cases;
- This is the last thing to do in the process of engraving because if you change spacing you may have to do all the tweekings again.
Knowing that,
What I did was to use two voices. The first one goes from D to F, the second one from F to A in the other staff. In this case, the first F is only a semiquaver (16th) and the second F is a dotted semiquaver (16th). Both F’s I applied the Voice column index attribute in engrave mode to the same value to make sure the notes will be over each other. And finally I manually changed the angle of the beams to align as perfect as my eye could get. And this is the result:
It should definitively possible to achieve that without such a (graphical) workaround. I’m confident the devs will deal with it — as soon as more urgent things are done, obviously !