When layouting orchestral parts, I find the behaviour kind of frustrating: Orchestral parts have to be layouted by double pages because of the page turning positions. Dorico only allows forcing a frame (a single page) and not a double frame, which would be very helpful. The greater problem is: Af…

[image] t.wille: Since I use maily the default settings, this seems not to be a problen of space settings. If the advice that @benwiggy has given doesn’t help, and you are using your default note spacing settings (have you actually tried resetting all your Layout Options to Default or Factory…

[DoricoLayout] Unfortunately this doesn’t help. In the example, you can see the problem (compare the last two systems). I don’t know, if sending the project would help, because I have this problem on EVERY project and EVERY part. And I had this in EVERY version of dorico. Doesn’t anybody else h…

[image] t.wille: I don’t know, if sending the project would help It always helps and is generally quicker: it gives us the chance to fiddle! [image] t.wille: Unfortunately this doesn’t help. Where did you put your note spacing change? I’m assuming the previous page? And what did you c…

Ok, where do I send it to? I cannot post it publicly because of non-disclosure-agreements.

[image] t.wille: Unfortunately this doesn’t help. What doesn’t help? What have you done here? Have you applied a Note Spacing Change on that Flow? You’ve got two Breaks there that probably aren’t helping. You can also look at the percentage fullness indicators. Add a break on one of the 90+%…

[image] t.wille: non-disclosure-agreements. for public domain schubert?

T. Wille don’t start putting in System brakes by hand. Remove all of them. In your part: Go to the first note on a page. Insert a manual Note Spacing change. Try different values and watch your page. You can change Note Spacing bit by bit for example from 4 down to 3 5/8. Most likely there wi…

This whole thread baffles me a bit, if I’m honest. Dorico has always excelled at layout compared to the competition, and I get very even spacing, on the whole. I suspect there are some issues with how you are approaching the whole task of layout. For instance, you’d never end up with that very st…

I’m a guitar player with only two hands. I’m learning to leave the spacing alone until the bitter end and I’m sure there will be no more notes to write. When I let Dorico be Dorico, it usually does spacing better than I can. My one constraint is that I use a 10" tablet, and I have to get all the non…

Well, I am completely frustrated. Of course, as you said, I should only insert brakes when needed. But unfortunately, I am nearly always getting these uneven distributed notes. Examples like the last stretched line of the horn1 should not depend on a special note spacing, extreme as this is. So I…

Dorico places music very unevenly after frame/system brakes

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olejay June 3, 2026, 8:29pm 25

Solution with note spacing changes works great!