As you can see on the picture, the fullness of the staff (it’s the last one in the piece) is 19% and in that layout the option to only justify when 50% full is checked. It’s the same situation for other parts, it only appears (correctly) shorter in full score layout. Any ideas what to do to fix that?
Like I mentioned, the option is checked hence my post.
Sorry, reading is hard sometimes apparently, lol. You’ll need to share the file here. I can’t think offhand what else could be causing it.
We’d probably need to see what else is going on in the file.
Ignis Fatuus v.07.dorico (1.3 MB)
There you go! It appears correct in full score and both sax layouts. Piano and drums have a multi-bar rest in the final system, which makes me think that maybe this is somehow forcing justification (?)
Hmm. I can fix the Guitar by setting 60%. Sometimes the values need a bit extra.
But you’re right: if I add a note to the last bar, it works as expected. I don’t know whether Multi-bar rests intentionally do this, or if there’s a setting. But we know the cause, at least.
Have you changed the minimum length values for multibar rests?
Have you Removed Rests in these bars, by any chance? You can identify that by selecting the last note/rest before this section, and looking for the Ends voice property in the Properties panel.
One of my colleagues may be able to correct me, as I’m currently on holiday, but I believe it is the case that if the final system of a flow contains only a multi-bar rest then that will always be justified, regardless of the threshold in Layout Options.
I started to suspect as much, as this is indeed only the case for the layouts where there is tacet/multi-bar rest at the end. Thanks for confirming.
No removed rests
Yes, I tried both with multi-bar rests and “tacet al fine” and the behavious is the same. (That’s what you meant, right?)
Fortunately, it’s a minor thing that doens’t hurt anything else but my sense of order 
but at least good to know for the future. Thanks everyone
