Dear all,
I was spending some time engraving, when all of a sudden I noticed the some staffs had broken within a system in multiple places. It seems to have to do with the Instrument changes, I’ve tried vertical spacing, and redoing the instrument change, but this doesnt solve the problem.
Any help?
Thanks!
At the heart of the organ 16.01.24b.dorico (1.3 MB)
That’s due to your staff spacing overrides (the red squares in this screenshot). Reset them as described here:
You have quite a lot of those, by the way – I would recommend first tweaking the settings in Library > Layout Options > Vertical Spacing to get the automatic results a bit closer to what you want (or even all the way there) before moving staves around manually.
Not only will you save yourself time and energy, you’ll end up with more robust engraving (as staff spacing overrides are locked to the page: if you needed to insert another page before the music starts, the page numbers would change and your overrides might be lost).
I think in this project, quite a lot of pages are falling at around 82-90% vertical fullness, and those pages are therefore justifying only systems but not the staves within them. Try increasing the 2nd vertical justification value to c 95%:
PS The page override on p5 is causing the page number text frame to appear on the wrong side of the page, ie top-left when it should be top-right. If you want to reduce the amount of music on a page, you can insert a frame break:
Amazing response time and thanks for all the extra useful tips, I should dive into the options of layout settings.
Thanks a lot!
You’re welcome!
On a side note, if you’d like to shorten your player name staff labels, you can write the name out on two lines in an external text editor, then paste it back into the player name field: the line break will be retained (you just can’t enter line breaks into that field directly).
Ah that is also way better! Takes up so much space now. 
