In Dorico, how do I control the stacking of text?
Here I want Gloria (inline heading)
above tempo-mark and rehearsal number
I think you have to turn off avoid collision for the text, and move it manually in Engrave mode.
Jesper
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Bummer. That means a lot of manual layout tweaking.
Thanks!
I could be wrong, though. Let’s see if someone has a better suggestion.
Jesper
There are more options in Engraving-Options
Personally I reduced the size (font and enclosure) of rehearsal marks, the default values are too large in my opinion. And – even if they are in the original score – I’m using bar numbers instead of letters or I omit them entirely as there are bar numbers anyway.
One of the things I hated most in the opera scores of the exclusive right editions (Ricordi, Schott, Durant) are rehearsal marks every 30–50 bars and you lose so much time in the rehearsals to calculate the bar you are talking about (I worked more than 25 years as a conductor in opera houses).
I tend to add hard bar-numbers as a secondary rehearsal spot system
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Hi @GeirSol, you can create a Paragraph Style with a defined increased distance from staff, and apply it to your Text.
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Forgot that one, even though I suggested it in the past. 
Jesper
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Well, yes, but it forces everything else upwards.
You can also turn off the Avoid collision property in the Paragraph style itself. Then it won’t push other things up.
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Yes, but then there are other issus.
Best option though.
Vadian: how’s the best way to reduce the size of the rehearsal mark enclosure?
Take a look at Engraving Options > Rehearsal Marks > Enclosure > Rectangle.
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I had seen those parameters before but was not sure if that was the correct way. I did some experimenting with the minimum distance and padding numbers, and that works perfectly. Thank you for your help.
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