Hi fellow Dorico users! I have a little issue with horizontal spacing in my current project. I want the distance between each eigth-note to be the same, because I’m using it for a live video score. Is there any change, that you can make the spacing even by default, without engraving every note manually?
So you don’t want Dorico to take the 16ths into account? That’ll make the Xylophone part look rather strange.
That is certainly true! But I would rather fix those manually afterwards, than everything at once. So yes…
I wouldn’t be doing this at all but there may be some tweaks you can make in the Note Spacing menu of Layout Options.
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Please have a look at pretty much all printed scores. This is simply the way it’s done. All the rhythms in a score have to be taken into account and this involves some distortion in some of the parts. ‘Fixing’ it will cause other problems.
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If you choose a Custom Spacing Ratio of 2 in Layout Options > Note Spacing, then an eighth note will take up twice the space of a sixteenth. You’ll also need to reduce the default space to 3 spaces, I’d suggest.
Normally, a ratio of 1.4 (√2) is used, so that an eighth note takes up 1.4 times the space of one sixteenth (and so on, for each larger duration). This of course means that 2 sixteenth notes take up 1.4 times the space of one eighth note, so if you have a rhythm like your Xylophone, it will make eighth notes uneven in other staves.
As said, this is entirely normal. You can’t fix it in one staff without spoiling another – unless you break the beat alignment between them, which is much worse.
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Thank you all! I’ll give it a try. You can always adjust manually, if it ends up looking horrible…