Adding border and padding to text leads to collision with other text

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In Dorico 4, I have a paragraph style for text cues (like “Verse”) which has a border and a padding. Unfortunately, when adding the padding, the alignment of the item changes so that it causes collisions with, for example, rehearsal marks. So the items stack above each other unnecessarily.

Is there a way to give the “text cue” paragraph style some kind of “offset” so that there is no collision?

This is with the padding:
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Without padding, there is no collision and the “H” stays on the same line as the “Verse 2”. But then the border around the “Verse 2” looks to narrow.

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Welcome to the forum, @floreg. I’m afraid there’s no good way to achieve what you’re after here automatically: Dorico’s collision avoidance (with a few special-case exceptions) only operates in the vertical dimension, so it ends up moving the rehearsal mark outside the staff-attached text item. You could consider perhaps attaching the text item a tiny bit (rhythmically) later in the bar.

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