Text goes together. How can this be normal
Welcome to the forum @AALO_VEEVO – it’s possible that the lyrics are overlapping here because more music has been forced into this system can fit.
You could try going to Engraving Options > Lyrics (assuming you have Dorico Pro) and reducing some of the minimum gaps to produce more wiggle room: such as the minimum gaps between lyrics and hyphens, and between adjacent lyrics. This will reduce some of the horizontal spacing pressure.
Is this checked:
Layout Options > Note Spacing?
I would also try double-clicking on the first syllable and then use the spacebar and hyphens to hop through the first few words. Sometimes that will clear things up.
Hi
Thank you
It is marked as you said :
Yes, I got it if I put spaces in front of the syllable, but I have the same thing in many places and it is extremely inconvenient to do it. I used to work with dorico3 and it worked very well there. For some reason, dorico4 doesn’t want to understand that syllables and words must have spaces.
I tried to reduce the number of bars in one system, but that didn’t work either. I made the fonts smaller and adjusted the gap sizes, but they didn’t help either.
I also put the factory settings, but still the same
Well, this is certainly not normal behavior. If you want a reliable diagnosis, you can post the file here, taking out the parts that aren’t relevant if you wish.
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dreamland2.dorico (1.5 MB)
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There is working file, maybe you can see what i did wrong or why it is as it is
It’s because of the tempo changes. I deleted the signposts and it’s fixed.
I remember this happening to me before. Sure seems odd… signposts shouldn’t affect the spacing.
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Thank you
next time i know when i do something stupid again 
Good spot @dan_kreider ! I had just reached the same conclusion.
This looks like the sort of cascade of tempo changes that used to happen in Sibelius trying to mimic a rall/rit.
@AALO_VEEVO Is this file an import?
To retain the same effect you can use the tempo track, if you don’t want to use explicit gradual tempo marks.
Oh, it wasn’t stupid. I think this is a Dorico issue. Signposts (invisible) should not affect note spacing!
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Basically im using cubase and it was just transported via midi to dorico and yep, there was different tempo changes.
I like to make music in cubase and if need notation, then dorico is better than cubase score editor … if dorico have one day same options as in cubase lower zone, where you can see all or selected tracks together in key editor, it will be great. At the moment dorico key editor is far from cubase , and not so handy to use. Hopefully it will soon be similar or better as in cubase
Yes, indeed, there’s a problem here that needs to be addressed. For the time being, you can avoid the issue by ensuring that tempo changes (even hidden ones that show signposts) only occur at positions coincident with notes, rather than in between them.
The boring technical reason for this problem is that Dorico can currently only move items apart horizontally to resolve collisions if they are in adjacent spacing columns. Spacing columns exist at every rhythmic position where an item begins on each staff, in aggregate. So, for example, if you have two instruments of a single staff each, and you have four 16th notes on the first staff and two 8th notes on the second staff that sound together, there are four spacing columns that apply to both staves – even on the second staff where the two 8th notes sound only with the first and third 16th notes on the other staff. A tempo mark, even a hidden one, itself creates a new spacing column, and so that can interfere with the collision avoidance behaviour for lyrics (and everything else that is considered when spacing horizontally).
In the fullness of time, what is needed is the ability for Dorico to consider non-adjacent spacing columns when resolving collisions, but this isn’t entirely straightforward to achieve and so has not yet risen to the top of our list of priorities.
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Thank you for your answer