Big gap left at the bottom of the page

[Lillie_Harris]

For information about why sometimes Dorico puts slightly too few or too many systems onto one page/into one frame, search the forum for “casting off circular problem” or similar - or read this good example from Daniel -

„Resolve the collision..” strange behavior

The problem here is that Dorico does not know exactly how much vertical space the music is going to occupy until it has cast it off, but it cannot know exactly how to cast it off until it knows the height of the music, so this is an inherently circular problem. When the 'Automatically resolve collisions between adjacent staves and systems’ option is on, then Dorico makes an estimate of what it thinks the height of the system(s) is likely to be prior to casting it off, so that it can decide when…