Bar takes whole with of page

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I have a bar 44 that takes the whole width of the page, there are no page over rides.

There are several ways that make Dorico show that bar as I need:

  • Deactivate “Make space for lyrics“ in Layout options
  • Delete a note or more
  • Delete a lyric (I deleted already most of the lyrics)
  • Deactivate any of the instruments
  • Move the Tenor note to the beginning of the bar, and change its length to a half note

I tried many things to solve this, but it remains a mystery to me.

Many thanks, robert

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I’m not sure why Dorico doesn’t distribute the bars more evenly, but for example you can just reduce the note spacing to 3 7/8 (by pressing the down arrow once), then insert a system break at bar 39, and you’ll get the desired result.

Or, more simply, just insert a Note Spacing Change at bar 40:

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And without breaks, reset vertical spacing settings, and note spacing 3.5.

Jesper

Tekst problem.dorico (2.5 MB)

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Thanks a lot for helping dear @charles_piano and @jesele, those suggestions indeed worked. But it did not really satisfy me, because I still don’t know why this is happening. Suppose I would like to use a note spacing of larger than 4; that would not be possible in this case. Luckily, I found something interesting; in all my newly created projects, the A4 page size is set to 209.55mm. If I correct it to 210mm, the system immediately shows 7 bars instead of 1. So something funky seems to be happening. At least I can now continue working on this.

Maybe, I will ask @John_at_Steinberg to have a look.

Again, thanks for helping :slight_smile:

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If you like to keep the larger note spacing, you could try to reduce the space size slightly under Library→Layout Options.

Jesper

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Thanks, Jesper :slight_smile:

I’m interested in knowing why this is happening, in the full score it’s no problem whatsoever. But using a layout that I created for printing it all, throws up this problem. And I discovered that Dorico does not allow me to move bars to a previous or next system. I am highly suspecting that these two are related.

Best, Robert

EDIT: I just found out that if the layout has “Default score“ as page template set; it is impossible to move bars to another system. What could be the reason for this?