Is there a setting for gap after a repeat barline? I’m not finding one in Spacing Gaps or Barlines, and Dorico is adding quite a bit of space unnecessarily. I added an En dash as text just to show the spacing discrepancy here.
All settings are factory default. The extra spacing gap throws off the visual balance quite a bit. Is there any way to change the extra gap after the start repeat barline?
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Just tried. It’s mostly when it’s at the start of a system. Not so much if it’s in the middle.
Can’t find any settings, sorry
Jesper
In Engraving Options > Spacing Gaps, you can change the Minimum gap after barline. The default value is 3/4 space, as illustrated in the first picture. The second picture shows the difference after I changed that value to -1/2 space.
I did not investigate what would happen in subsequent bars in a longer piece of music.
Oh, it didn’t occur to me to test a negative value there. Interesting!
I played around with this a bit more. Unfortunately the negative setting only appears to be beneficial in this specific case, where there is a repeat at the beginning of a system. Setting it to -1/2 results in this when the first note of the system has an accidental:
It also doesn’t appear like it has an effect on the additional gap after a repeat that occurs mid-system, and it places other accidentals too close to the barline.
I guess I would like to request a setting to specify the gap after a repeat barline, as there doesn’t seem to be an easy way to globally modify this.
That’s disappointing.
I suppose that the only way then would be to use Note Spacing in Engrave mode to move the note and the following barline to the left.
