Fix staff attached text below last system of flow not pushing next flow header down

[reggthims]

If you have staff-attached text, systems move out of the way for it, but if the text is below the bottom staff of a flow, the following flow header does not move out of the way (though the first system of the next flow does). Surely this is a bug? I can bodge around this by adding empty lines, but could this be fixed?

I realise that Dorico is not a replacement for a generalized layout program, but it feels very common to want to end (or start) a flow with a block of text that has information about the flow… My use case is preparing a book of tunes, I have seen others generating hymnals with extra verses.

[Christian_R]

@reggthims

it feels very common to want to end (or start) a flow with a block of text that has information about the flow…

Hi @reggthims, for text below the flow title, you can create new Flow heading template/s in Engrave mode (and possibly assign them with Flow Heading overrides).

Flow footer functionality (text at end of flow) is not jet implemented, but was already requested in the Forum.

@reggthims

but if the text is below the bottom staff of a flow, the following flow header does not move out of the way

For this you can use a flow heading override, increasing the top margin of the subsequent flow (which will add some distance to the avoid collision spacing: the red double-arrow indicates the sum of those two “spacings”):

Dorico file example:
flow heading override for flow footer.dorico (1.4 MB)