Bar numbers and rehearsal marks at system start

[asherber]

With rehearsal marks at system start to the right of clef and key signature, is there a way to change Dorico’s behavior for avoiding collisions with bar numbers?

With a short bar number:

With a longer bar number:

I would prefer for the rehearsal mark to move horizontally to avoid the bar number, rather than vertically.

[Mark_Johnson]

From Daniel a couple of years ago:

[Suggestion]: Better automatic collision avoidance

At the moment, Dorico never resolves collisions by moving items horizontally, only vertically. I agree that in some situations it would be preferable for Dorico to be able to move an item a little way rightwards to avoid vertical movement, and this is something we plan to look into at some point in the future.

[asherber]

Thanks. Hopefully “some point in the future” is not too far off!

I note that in Engraving Options, there is already an option to position tempo changes to the right of rehearsal marks instead of under them, so maybe this is a first step.

For this particular issue, I think it would also work to be able to specify a horizontal offset for all rehearsal marks at the start of a system. (Currently, you can only specify an offset if you make them left-aligned with the system barline, not if they’re to the right of clef/key signature.