Is there a setting that will correct both slurs so they lead normally to the note heads? And why are they different?
The following situation gave rise to this question. In this case the stems go the same direction but the slur from the grace note is still incorrect
Yet in other cases, the slur shape is correct:
Dorico uses different rules for the positioning of slurs between grace notes and normal notes than it does for slurs between normal notes. Both cases are tricky to deal with, and in general there is more work for us to do for the placement of slurs between grace notes and normal notes. For slurs between normal notes, things are generally much better, but the specific case of slurs between notes with differing stem directions also needs some further special handling. These issues are all on our radar for when we have the chance to do another round of work on slurs.
Thank you, Daniel. In the case of example two above, something else seems to be going on because when I entered the same music in another file with the same Engraving Options set in the Library Manager, I get the result I expected. Here are the examples in more complete form, the first from my original file as seen above and the second which is more correct:
Not only the engraving options but also factors like the precise horizontal spacing, choice of music font, etc. can all play a part in the placement of slurs.
I tried compressing and expanding the second example by adding and subtracting many measures to the system, but I was not able to get the strange result in the original example.
Curiously, now I don’t get the strange result in the very measure of the first example in the OP, which was done in a test file. The result is normal for these notes in a different test file.
Here is another strange example from the original test file:
So there must be some setting that is different yet they are both using the same Engraving options.