Looking for guidance here. I often encounter beam situations like this where Dorico, to avoid “colliding” with the staff, makes the stems unnecessarily long.
I’ve tried just about everything in Engraving Options and it seems like the only thing which makes the stems a more typical length would be to set the beam angle steeper, which is not something I want. Any ideas?
It ended up being this option, which I have no recollection of changing. It seems even though it was set shorter, because it wouldn’t straddle a staff line at the right place, it simply rounded up to a longer stem.