d. collins wrote
Speaking of beaming, of Sibelius, etc., I was looking at the sample files of a new French publisher:
http://www.lasinfoniedorphee.com/catalogue/PDF/067.pdf
This seems worse, beam-wise, than anything Finale would do, even without plug-ins and with the default settings. Especially the violin parts on the first bar of the first page! The stems even stick out (visible at 300%) below the slantedest beams I've ever seen. This seems to be done with the Berlioz software, which has many enthusiastic supporters here in France and which is supposed to be so "elegant" according to them. So much for elegance... But then, of course, there's no way of knowing if these shortcomings are the software's or the engraver's.
Dennis
Before opening that file, I guessed that it'd have those horrid 45-degree beams on pairs of quavers, and cramped semis & demis, that are all too familiar from Debussy & Ravel. Whaddya know, there they are! ;) This strikes me as a particular French preference that goes beyond software implications, but would explain the view of Berlioz as 'elegant'.
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