When including an extra player in a layout (e.g. for a temporary cue on a separate staff) which is hidden the majority of the time via the manual staff visibility feature, I have noticed that the automatic note spacing appears to act as if the hidden staff was not hidden – resulting in bars, that have sparse amounts of notes in the shown staff while having large amounts of notes in the hidden staff, getting unproportionally wide, like this passage:
This looks very similar to the problem that someone had last month on a 4 players-2 piano score, where the music in the Primo modified spacing in the Secondo…
We’d need to see this specific project in order to say what’s happening here In general, staves that are hidden by way of manual staff visibility changes do not participate in rhythmic spacing.
The team has now figured out the issue and @dspreadbury has allowed me to share his reply for future reference:
Andrew has been looking into the spacing problem from your project, and we’ve figured out what’s going on. The issue is that when you have a percussion kit hidden via manual staff visibility, Dorico is still incorrectly considering the material contributed by the individual instruments in the kit. There’s nothing you can do to prevent this at the moment, but we will fix it in a future update.
