Rehearsal marks are treated as text overlays and are positioned in a stack above other text annotations.
This frequently leads to excessive space between staves, which can only be removed with lots of manual editing, and extra pages to print and tape.
If I could move the rehearsal mark and ask it to realign everything else it would help.
However, my preferred option would be to position rehearsal mark above the barline, which is what I do manually to many of the parts I produce.
Rehearsal marks do of course position themselves above the barline, and indeed they do so by default – so I’m sure there must be more to your request than that. Can you be a bit more specific about exactly what you want to achieve?
Side issue: the [A] is over the header template (lyricist)
Main issue: segno + [C] + text1 + text2 + chord are all stacked vertically. This is not a contrived example - this combination occurs in most of the charts I write. In Engrave mode I drag the segno and [C] down over the bar line to the left of the other text which takes less vertical space and is easier to read, but leaves a vertical gap. The [B] is over the barline, but as far as I can see, [C] is not. Ideally I could tell it to place the rehearsal mark to the left of other text, but short of that, it would be helpful to be able to move things around and ask it to lay out the staves to use the white space I created. I can drag the stave vertically, but I often tweak the overall vertical spacing to minimize the number of pages and adjusting the one stave does not help to accomplish that.
In case that’s not clear: in the Engrave step, if I find that one or two staves have forced a new page, I will lower the vertical spacing setting from 10 to 9, then 8 to see if I can eliminate the last page. It often works well, but sometimes not, even when I can see that there is space available due to my manual adjustments as described above.
Thanks!
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Does this option help?
Or with bar numbers also showing up at Rehearsal Marks (to be set in Layout Options):
Dorico does not provide collision avoidance or extra space above the top staff in a music frame. The same thing can happen on a page where stacked items collide with the header.
In addition to @charles_piano’s suggestions, you could also try using F to flip your text to under the staff (which takes it out of the above-staff spacing calculations) and then reposition it in Engrave mode. Or you could just turn off Avoid Collisions on the text.
Thanks for your help. The rehearsal mark positioning option is very helpful. If I could do something similar with the segno it would be great!
Once I changed it, all my manually-adjusted rehearsal marks moved out of the page. Is there a way to tell it to reset positioning of everything?
You could try selecting all, filtering rehearsal marks (or select one rehearsal mark and «Select More»), and resetting their position?
