Should I lengthen the stem of the dotted half note?

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Post by Tomas E » Thu Jan 13, 2022 3:26 pm

Since the low D represents two voices on the same pitch I need to have it like this. Should I lengthen the stem of the dotted half note to make it not look like a part of the beamed notes?

That is should it look like Finale makes it?
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Or should I make it longer? Like this:
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Post by Peter Thomsen » Thu Jan 13, 2022 3:54 pm

One way to do it.
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Post by Tomas E » Thu Jan 13, 2022 4:01 pm

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Post by John Ruggero » Thu Jan 13, 2022 5:28 pm

Some other possibilities. Context could be important, so I supplied a hypothetical continuation:
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Post by Tomas E » Thu Jan 13, 2022 8:11 pm

Thanks John!
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Post by Tomas E » Thu Jan 13, 2022 8:18 pm

I found Peter's example to be the most suitable in this case, since the time signature is 3/4 and thus there are no more notes in this layer in the measure.
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