What is the best way to spread out an orchestral score across the page when Dorico does not do it by default? I know I could go into Engrave mode and pull the staves down, myself, but I guess there is a more secure way to do it? Or is it the only way?
Have a read of this, it might be of use:
Manual staff spacing should only be a last resort for when you are certan there is no global option which gives you what you want. In this case, there definitely is.
This must be one of the Discover Dorico sessions that we link to most often here, but it’s for good reason:
Thanks @DanielMuzMurray !! Something funny happened - I lowered the first value of Vertical Justification - Justify distance between staves and system when frame is at least x% full - to 50%, after having tried to increase it - without the system spreading across the page.At 50 % it jumped right to where I wanted it - nice! Funny thing is - I then reopened the dialogue and the value was back to 60%. I don´t quite understand that, but I might not have to, because the job is done.