Using staff positioning in BravuraText gives bad results when trying to show B4 note

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I am trying to display melodies using BravuraText v1.393. Using staff positioning glyphs, I am able to display notes on a staff properly as in this unicode character sequence : ‘staff5LinesWide’, ‘gClef’, ‘staff5LinesNarrow’, ‘-’, ‘staff5LinesWide’, ‘timeSigCombNumerator’, ‘timeSig4’, ‘timeSigCombDenominator’, ‘timeSig4’, ‘=’, ‘-’, ‘staff5LinesWide’, ‘staffPosLower1’, ‘noteQuarterUp’, ‘=’, ‘-’, ‘staff5LinesWide’, ‘staffPosLower2’, ‘noteQuarterUp’, ‘=’, ‘-’, ‘staff5LinesWide’, ‘staffPosLower3’, ‘noteQuarterUp’, ‘=’, ‘-’, ‘staff5LinesWide’, ‘staffPosLower4’, ‘noteQuarterUp’, ‘=’, ‘-’.
If I change a note in a melody to a B4 (the one note without any positioning glyph in that clef) the note are not spaced evenly on the horizontal axis anymore and a gap appears after the B4 note and the next. Example with a B4 in the middle of the melody:

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unicode character sequence: ‘staff5LinesWide’, ‘gClef’, ‘staff5LinesNarrow’, ‘-’, ‘staff5LinesWide’, ‘timeSigCombNumerator’, ‘timeSig4’, ‘timeSigCombDenominator’, ‘timeSig4’, ‘=’, ‘-’, ‘staff5LinesWide’, ‘staffPosLower1’, ‘noteQuarterUp’, ‘=’, ‘-’, ‘staff5LinesWide’, ‘staffPosLower2’, ‘noteQuarterUp’, ‘=’, ‘-’, ‘staff5LinesWide’, ‘noteQuarterUp’, ‘=’, ‘-’, ‘staff5LinesWide’, ‘staffPosLower4’, ‘noteQuarterUp’, ‘=’, ‘-’.
Example is rendered using Qt 6.5 but I also seen the same behaviour using MS Wordpad.
Is this a limitation, a bug or just me who missed something in the documentation on how to use those glyphs?

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Hello Pascal,
welcome to the forum.
I am a Dorico user, trying to understand your question. Which software are you describing? Are you using a terminal application to render musical notation?

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The best way to put musical glyphs together in a meaningful way might be using a SMuFL-compatible music notation application like Dorico, not just the font… Why are you doing this?

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I am developing an educational software. Ideally I would generate the sheetmusic on the fly from melodies stored in the ABC format. What I haven’t tried yet is to use another SMuFL font like Leipzig to see if I get the same results.

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are you by any chance using pascal as programming language?

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That would have been funny but no, it is not language I master. The project is written in Python and C++.

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