Ossia bar for piano squashes subsequent lyrics

Dorico
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This is new to me. I added an ossia bar to the piano part in this opera score, and it squashed all the subsequent lyrics in the voice parts:

squashed lyrics
squashed lyrics1646×462 97.6 KB

(They’re not squashed in Engrave mode, by the way.)
I delete the added ossia staff, and hey presto…
unsquashed
unsquashed1400×389 71 KB

They’re unsquashed again. Any ideas?

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Are you in Galley View? Try changing that to a different view mode.

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Good point. It’s unsquashed in Page view.
However, I never work in that view, so I am left with somewhat of an irritant.
Cutting and pasting the vocal material back into the original bars has no effect, but - for some reason - the squashing ceases after a dozen or so bars. That happens to be after a tempo change, but I reckon that’s a coincidence, as deleting the change also has no effect.
I suppose I can learn to live with a dozen squashed bars.
UPDATE - I’ve discovered the culprit. It’s the tremolandi in the piano part. If I replace them with the written-out version (e.g. bar 79) the lyrics space properly. But the squashing still seems to be related to the ossia bar, given that the trem. doesn’t affect lyric spacing if the ossia isn’t there.

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Perhaps this other thread will be of use…

In Galley view, lyrics are overlaid on the notes

See the solution:

-- Jim

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Thanks, Jim, but in my case that doesn’t apply, as it has to do with vertical spacing; also it now appears that the squashing is caused by a combination of tremolo notation and the presence of an ossia bar.

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Ahh, forgive my poor eyesight! (That and the fact that I had been wondering the last few days about how to change the vertical spacing in Galley view for a personal project!) I see now that the squishing in m80 is horizontal, not vertical! That is odd! I’m not sure why the ossia would cause that. Maybe someone else could chime in…