I have tried and tried to get text frames to properly display their text justified to the bottom of the frame. Dorico’s behavior seems random. I have tried removing all overrides to page layouts in the right-hand side menu. I have checked the “Vertical Alignment” property in the “Text” section of the properties panel, and select the “Bottom” vertical alignment option. I have made sure that there are no errant cr/lf in the blank text.
Some pages work as expected with the exact same properties settings, while other pages appear to function randomly, placing some text outside of the frame and therefore unreadable. This sure seems like a bug. (I have seen a number of counter-intuitive inconsistencies in Dorico’s engraving controls. I’ll try to post some others in separate threads).
Will there be a maintenance release of Dorico 6 in the near future that might address some of these random inconveniences that prevent me from making my scores not appear the way I would like them to.
(I have also posted a previous request for both a "{@flowFooterflowFooter@}” mark-up as a pair to the “{@flowTitle@}” mark-up.
Thanks in advance for any assistance you might be able to provide to solve this issue.
ADDENDUM: I have just noticed in the Properties Panel under the “Frames” category associated with the errant frames, the “Top” offset dimensions are grayed-out.
I tried deleting the offending frame, recreating it from scratch, and setting its properties accordingly. This new frame looks to have the proper margins, but this time, when I set the vertical justification to “Bottom”, the text rose one-half line above the top of the frame. This state persisted even after I repositioned the frame to another location not immediately adjacent to another frame.
Thanks for the response. Attached is the Dorico 6 Pro project I’ve been working on. Note that there are other issues with respect to Page Templates not being honored by the system, even without template overrides. Check out the last page and note that the top two headers are not conforming to the “SFLA Concert Set Page Template”. Perhaps it is a separate issue, but it does seem that a) the template system is buggy, or b) I am clueless as to how this system is supposed to work!
Also, on pages 1 & 2, the lower left-hand frame that contains the current flow’s title is Top Justified, even though it is set to Bottom Justified. This is true for both Page 1 and Page 2, and yet, the right-hand frame that contains the copyright and other information is properly bottom justified to the bottom of the frame. Why are these different?!
I have deleted and recreated these frames several times, and I cannot get it to do my bidding.
Thanks in advance for any assistance and enlightenment you may be able to provide.
Your page template set is called “SFLA Concert Set Page Template”, as is one of the templates inside of it. Just to be clear, your Full Score layout is using the template set with that name, but none of the pages is using the template with that name. If you want a page to use a template other than First or Default, you need to right click the page icon in the Pages panel and choose Insert Page Template Change. (You can tell which template a page is using by selecting the page icon; the template in use will be highlighted in the Page Templates panel.)
In Project Info, the Copyright field for your first flow has an extra carriage return at the end.
