Not needling jazz musicians, as I am one. Just needling Dorico’s handling of jazz playback, which judging by the examples in that thread, including my own posts, is quite amateur.
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I had a listen to some examples, and I think it’s safe to say that your arrangements outshine the musicality of the raw output of the libraries. 
But it doesn’t really sound like live amateur musicians per se, but rather like a twisted soulless jazz hallucination.
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Getting there with the Maestro music font, but as of now, making it look as awful as it can in Finale is still requiring too much effort.
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Wow, the deluxe package!!
Yes — especially if she were actually Behind Bars (as in a jail cell).
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Well, that’s got to hurt! I actually don’t mind that she - or someone else - is used as a default - one has to start somewhere. Oh wait, this is thread is NOT supposed to be serious…
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Something funny comes to my mind now: say you have to print 2 pages or just 1 page of music (a leadsheet), and say you have your printer feed with full of papers and cartridge toner (full ink).
—> when you hit Print to print that leadsheet, you get all the 700 papers printed in a non stop way, even you hit the cancel button of your printer, it doesn’t stop! and what? your printer cartridge toner has gone then.
Too bad…a day after…you decide to buy a better printer, more papers, and you try again with that one page, you get the same scenario… this will makes someone mad, and I’m pretty sure, you’ll no longer want to be an engraver, well… how about a baker job? 
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What about the overly thin staff lines and slurs, TNR font in odd proportions, bracket too close to the staff, extra space between key and time sigs, and of course lots of white space between staves, as Finale does basically no vertical positioning? 
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Yes, those are nice touches!
But my point is that the ugliness is requiring too much manual labor, and besides the fact that TNR has been more than overused historically by now, the notation actually still looks half decent.
Finale Emulation Mode. In which Write and Engrave Mode conflate into one mode, the panels become floating palettes, Playing Techniques and expressions are organized into groups in libraries of the user’s choice and assigned single key strokes called Metatools, you can insert an expression without a dynamic, import a PDF graphic, you never have to depress the option key to move something etc. Wait, this is getting way too far-fetched!
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The Amateur Playback Mode is a great idea, @Frigolito . I’d also suggest a ‘repeat efficiency’ parameter, as in, every player has a fixed chance of observing a repeat…
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Brilliant! Why did not I think of that?
Here’s something legitimate but unnecessary:
With the rise in power of computers, some word processing programs (e.g. Pages) can guess what you want to write based on earlier context. These suggestions show up in gray and let you press space to actually put them in. With repetitive structures such as those in musicals or rock music, this would be useful, but not necessary to have in Dorico.
For instance, if a theme had been repeated before and you begin to copy it in another place, it would show in gray (or some other color option; gray is taken up by mouse editing) in the appropriate key and durations and you could activate it using space, enter, etc.
Now, to make this fit the thread, how about dispose of the suggestion entirely and add it without asking? 
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How about just use Finale?
In much the same way that Google faff around with their brand, it’s high time the Dorico Team exploited the branding and seasonal opportunities that lie with Dorico Beep.
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I was waiting for someone to suggest that! 
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(In case you missed the amazing Dorico video @wing shared in post #25 above)
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I am not a jazz musician, but if I ever try to write jazz, this will be the title of my first piece.
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