I agree, and would have written that myself. In fact, as the middle voice is mostly played with the right hand, I'd have moved that to the upper staff as well.
But I'm trying to reproduce what the composer (Ivor Gurney) and his editor (Gerald Finzi I think) published, rather than modern best practice.
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Monday, December 19, 2016, 3:54:03 PM, you wrote:
> On 19.12.2016 11:51, Peter Toye wrote:
>> I'm trying to engrave the attached score fragment, but can't work out
>> how to get it right. I agree with LP that it's not beautiful, but
>> that's what the composer wrote.
> The method used in that engraving is nice, but difficult to get right
> and rarely used. It’s not a good idea to go exactly with that in
> computer engraving, so I’d rather do something like the attached.