Of course it remains true. (Paul made that statement in the middle of a particularly wordy – and dare I say tiresome – thread here.)
Even in the Dorico 4 development cycle, which has been largely focused on workflow rather than new engraving features, we’ve:
- added beautifully-positioned figured bass bracketing
- implemented numbered bar regions
- completely revamped the way lyrics are drawn and thus provided greatly enhanced options for their appearance and alignment
- made it possible to input, edit and change the positions of rests in percussion kits
- added new options for the placement of articulations on split stems
- added new options for the appearance of repeat barlines at system breaks
- added chord diagram fingering
- improved the placement of accidentals in key signatures for the (very obscure) mezzo-soprano clef
- greatly improved the flexibility of staff labels (including adding brand new player group labels)
- added new options for cautionary accidentals in modernist scores
- added new options for beam slants for groups with repeated notes
- added new options for the extent of wiggly trill lines
- added new possibilities for centred beams
- made it possible to alter the thickness and spacing of individual beams
- added parentheses for chord symbols
- made it possible to change the middle and end thickness of individual ties
…and probably some other things I’m forgetting. That’s not exactly a short list of engraving-focused improvements.