Left alignment of the staves

Dorico
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Hi,
The automatic left-alignment feature of the staves, though nice in itself, sometimes leads to some disgusting misalignments like the one below.

How can I align the second staff with the third? Or, rather, the third and every subsequent with the second?
I wish I had just 2 fixed offsets (normal and first-system) like in L***P*** and bad old F****

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Hi,

Since Dorico 6 you can solve this by putting the staff labels outside the music frame:

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Edit: since you seem to have Dorico 5 (according to the tag), I’m afraid you won’t find an automatic solution.

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Thanks! That gives me a good reason to work on my update laziness!

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You could increase the Minimum indent for systems with staff labels to a suitable value.

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