Horizontal lyrics collision

Didn’t find a corresponding topic in the forum so here there is an example of lyrics colliding with a barline:


Do I have (for now) have to correct this manually? Would be nice to have a parameter like “minimum horizontal distance to left / right item”

First, you may want to use vocal staves that do not draw the bar lines between staves.
Also, are you aware of the alignment option in Lyrics Properties?

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Derrek,
thank you very much for your helpful reply.
I want to put lyrics between two piano staffs, so the barlines should be between staves.
Maybe that’s a bit unusual but I want my piano pupil to be able to play the music and read the lyrics at once (without having another system just for the melody, that doubles the right hand)
I know the properties-box. I’d like to have lyrics to align centered in general and I can change the settings for the syllables that come after a barline manually, of course. But I would appreciate if Dorico could do this automatically. :slight_smile:

If I recall correctly the plan is that in some future version Dorico will automatically erase a part of the barline behind the syllable, or dynamic marking or whatever happens to collide with it.
For now a combination of adjusting the note spacing and slightly moving the offending syllable works well for me. In your case I wouldn’t even use the alignment option but just grab the syllable with the mouse and move it a bit to the right.

Andreas, you can also move the note with ‘long’ word to the right after switching on ‘Note Spacing’ toggle in Engrave mode.