Odd Staff Text spacing bug?

[D.Galbraith]

Hey all - so when I do a two-line staff text, the spacing is off… much different than a one-line text. These are actually both flipped below from their default above-the-staff position. Also, when I turn off “Avoid Collisions”, they align properly. Any ideas?

[pianoleo]

This is a known bug.

@dspreadbury

I can explain what’s going on here. Single- and multi-line text items are positioned differently: single-line items can be positioned away from the staff relative to their baseline (i.e. the bottom of the text, ignoring descenders), but multi-line items cannot, because we don’t have ready access to the baseline of the last line of text in a multi-line text item. Multi-line items are thus positioned relative to the bounding rect.

However, in this case, the check Dorico is using to determine whether the text item is single- or multi-line is failing, with the consequence that the text item is being measured correctly, but then positioned incorrectly. We’ll make sure this gets fixed.

[D.Galbraith]

Kudos to you guys for your hard work. I’m amazed how responsive your team is!

[D.Galbraith]

Incidentally, the workaround for this is to input two single-line texts - they stack and position much better