I’m finishing up my first score in Dorico and not quite at this stage yet but trying to think ahead - once everything in the music is final, what’s the best plan of attack for removing the various types of collisions in the different layouts I’ll need? I imagine some of this must be done in layout options, engraving options, some manual tweaking in various ways, but rather than just dive in and start trying stuff and risk making it worse I figured I’d ask first!
So for example, the clarinet part comes out like this at the moment (ignore all the text notes to myself)
Whoah! That’s pretty extreme! You may find that simply removing the textual “notes to self” fixes many of the problems. Beyond that, Layout Options > Vertical Spacing is full of stuff that’s likely relevant. I suggest you at least temporarily increase the gap between systems there.
And no, there isn’t a “recalculate” button - Dorico calculates dynamically, based on rules. It also compensates when you manually adjust things in Engrave mode. Where this causes you problems, check the properties panel for the “Avoid collisions” property - turning it off prevents Dorico from automatically compensating for what you’re adjusting.
Having a similar issue. I’ve tried altering the “flow heading top margin” but this does nothing to alleviate the problem.
How can I make space between the flow title and the start of the music?
Thanks!
You can increase the space below the flow title (pull down the lower margin and add a blank text line with a space in it under the actual token line), but that will affect all flow headings unless you create separate flow Master Pages.