I imagine this is a problem I could manually fix by upgrading (as implied in this thread Rehearsal marks overlapping lyrics ), but I’m struggling to get collision avoidance on my rehearsal marks to work as I expect. Here’s the issue:
I don’t imagine the bass section is going to enjoy trying to read their line past these rehearsal marks; I don’t understanding why it’s interleaving them like this. Maybe I’m missing a way to get padding for the whole lyric line rather than just for the actual lyric words proper?
Any insight much appreciated 
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You need to look at Layout Options > Vertical Spacing and reduce your spacing gaps a little. Your page is probably full (check the percentage indicator at the bottom right). Dorico won’t violate the spacing instructions you’ve given it.
Thanks for the reply, Dan. I did poke around in Vertical Spacing a bunch before posting this, but I suppose I just needed to meddle with it more. The solution ended up being making the inter-system gap big enough.
Y’know, because I just can’t let things go, I have more questions, haha. In the Layout Options I hit Reset to Factory, then changed just the Rastral size to 5 (6.0mm) and set Show flow headings to Never, and I get this weirdness. By default the collision avoidance is on; why is it overlapping the outer staves of two systems like this? I’ve attached the whole project in case, again, I’m missing something obvious…
ice cream for the unwell forum version.dorico (1.9 MB)
Hi @carla.ayles, as an exercise for myself I allowed myself to reproduce your example.
Starting from factory settings (using Letter page size and 6,5mm Rastral Size), and changing a couple of global options and two little note spacings (to accommodate the rehearsal marks), I came out with this result. Here the changed Layout and Engraving Options, and some screenshots (and the file).
(There are many ways to adjust spacing… ). I hope it can be of some help to see alternative ways, for the future:
Result:
Dorico file example:
correction.dorico (1.6 MB)
Screenshots (click to expand)
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Thanks for taking a look Christian! I appreciate the assist
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