I am deep in the process of updating older orchestral XMLs from Finale to Dorico. Done quite a few now, but today I just ran into this weird extra wide left margin.
The two examples use the same template into which XML was imported. The right half of the screenshot shows what the margin looks like in ALL other scores. The left half shows a much wider margin - not what I want.
There seems to be some offset for the music inside the music frame.
Checked all settings (not just the margins) in Layout Options but settings look identical for both scores.
Frankly, I don’t know what else to check.
Any ideas?
Is it all systems or only the first? If the latter, you might check under Layout Options/Staves and Systems/Indents. There’s a field for ‘Indent first system of flow by…’
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Checked the indent setting and it’s 0. But the offset is on every page.
I also checked in the individual music frame properties, but nothing there.
As soon as I get back to it I’ll check if, just maybe, there are some white spaces in from of one of the staff names.
I figured it out.
I had manually added one instrument and updated the instrument’s name. This is the dialog where the names show right aligned - that means you don’t see if there are white spaces on the left of the name. That particular name I had copied from somewhere else in the score and somehow it came with a handful of white spaces.
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