Strange layout in Dorico 6

[asherber]

@Dominik_Skrabal

Also, didn’t it used to be the default that Dorico wouldn’t exceed 100% music frame fill. As you can see, here it’s over 106%.

Daniel has explained elsewhere that there can be a kind of circular reasoning in the layout engine, depending on page contents, that can sometimes produce a cluttered page like this. Most likely, if you put a manual frame break at the start of the last system, everything will be fine.

Here’s his explanation:

„Resolve the collision..” strange behavior

The problem here is that Dorico does not know exactly how much vertical space the music is going to occupy until it has cast it off, but it cannot know exactly how to cast it off until it knows the height of the music, so this is an inherently circular problem. When the 'Automatically resolve collisions between adjacent staves and systems’ option is on, then Dorico makes an estimate of what it thinks the height of the system(s) is likely to be prior to casting it off, so that it can decide when…