I have had this before and was able to solve it but now I just can’t find what to do:
I have a 32 measure lead sheet.
Everything is fine except the last staff line, 4 measures, covers only about half the width of the page.
After an hour of searching through the various options and preferences dialogs I can’t find anything to change it.
(Other than adding an extra measure at the end and then adding a system break).
This is set up for 5 bars per line with manual system breaks at the 4 bar break. I didn’t find another way to handle the first staff line with 4 bars and a one beat pickup measure.
Great, I was looking for that explanation to!
My personal workflow is this:
Try something with the custom spacing ratio of notes (not too much!).
If there are staves which are quite full (e.g. 97%), i try it by setting a system break before the last bar of the staff. Often the whole page gets recalculated by such a prodedure and solves the problem. Or: i do the opposite, means combining a bar to a slightly filled staff (e.g. 70–80%) in order to force Dorico to create a e.g. 102%-staff.
Thanks. I was looking for this fix too.
The latest manual should bring up the relevant topic based on a variety of related terms, including “last staff cover full width of the page”
If you have a ‘fraction’ of a page’s worth of material on the last page, then I tend to change the Note Spacing for the whole Flow: either make it a bit tighter, so that the music fits onto the previous page; or make it a bit looser, so that it fills the final page.
hi, I’m wondering how to make the last staff cover full width of the page in dorico 5. The links in the chat led me to a page that says error. I’ve attached a screenshot of my problem.
thanks a lot and best wishes
