I don't find a ligature or codepoint that allows for stacking multiple notes into a chord. For example, to be able to place an F and an A in the same chord on the treble staff... a third. Or similarly a fifth. This makes it hard to discuss such topics in text.
I sort of expected to find some way, such as a ligature to back up to the previous character's X reference point, so that additional characters could be drawn there, but I haven't found it yet, possibly because I don't know what it would be called, if it exists.
Similar to this are the problems of aligning a bar line at the end of a staff character, or the variant horziontal spacing of the augmentation dot... it appears after the flag, for notes having a flag, but jammed right up against the note, for notes not having a flag. The former is too far apart, and the latter too close together.
A variety of forward and backward microspaces might help this problem, and could also solve stacking multiple notes into a chord. Unicode has forward microspaces of a few sizes, but I don't recall any backward ones.
Another similar issue is that a 3/4 time signature looks to em like the 3 is slightly to the left of the 4. Maybe they are aligned on the left edge, instead of centered? It is not at all obvious how to achieve centering.
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