> According to Gould, I believe that dots limit 3 is the correct setting.
OK. On reflection, perhaps I can see your reasoning, although I disagree that the current situation reliably produces the notation one would expect. And it's insufficiently controllable.
In any case, I might argue "chord-dots-limit" isn't unambiguously explained
". Limits the column of dots on each chord to the height of the chord plus chord-dots-limit staff-positions."
In situation 1 in my test cases, the height of the chord is 4 staff-positions... or is it 2 and a half staff-spaces?
Should I want in example 2, to have dots on the D, F, A spaces and not on B, then chord-dots-limit=1 might be interpreted to suppress the dot that's 2 staff positions away from the chord (on B space) and place one 1 staff position _above_ the chord, on A. The dotsUp and dotsDown settings don't appear to have any effect here.
Chris