Hi, I’m working on a band piece and have come across a problem I can’t figure out.
In bar two the suspended cymbal has a whole note - I have but the text “yarn” on the note. That is all fine. The problem is in the clarinet part - they have quarter notes, and Dorico is leaving extra space between the first two quarter notes, as if the “yarn” text was applied to the clarinet part. How do I get rid of the extra space?
I hope I’m explaining this so you can understand.
As ever, a screenshot would show more; and a sample project even more.
It’s inevitable and expected that in a score, the beats will align, so that if one staff has material that distorts the beat, that will apply to all staves.
I definitely can’t reproduce that here. If you have 16th notes in the Flutes or something, that certainly could be affecting the spacing, but as benwiggy said, we’ll really need to see the the project.
Are you quite sure the yarn indicaion is attached precisely to the start of the note, and not an eighth or even a sixteenth after it? Without seeing your project, we can only guess.
Is that an LV tie? That (combined with two eighth note items) is probably more likely to be the cause. But it’s to be expected that more things in beat 1 than the other beats will mean that beat 1 takes more space
if you select the “(yarn)”, then Ctrl-X (cut) the text: does the spacing change, after this?
then select the beginning of the Cymbal note, and Ctrl-V (paste): is it still mis-aligned?
It’s actually the “lv” causing the large gap.
