I usually don’t have trouble with vertical spacing, but in one one-player layout of (currently) 7 pages, all except the last range from 157% to 185%, looking like this:
Things I have done, neither of which makes any difference:
- Removed all page overrides, page template changes, etc.
- Reset layouts everywhere I can do it (on the Engrave menu).
There are no relevant signposts anywhere in the layout.
There’s nothing weird in the vertical spacing options, and I didn’t actually touch them before encountering this problem.
I can repair it piecemeal by manually inserting frame breaks, but I shouldn’t have to do that, and if I do it and then reset the layout bounces back to this mess. None of the other layouts exhibit this behavior, whether they include the player assigned to the problem layout or not.
I’ve never seen anything like this and I’ve been using Dorico regularly since version 1. I guess I’d better attach the file.
Flows from CervettoOpIIv3.dorico (2.6 MB)
Very odd. I can’t make sense of it.
Further info (not helpful, though): These are the 1st 4 flows from a larger project, which I exported to fit the file size limits. I wondered whether the problem would disappear with the export, but no such luck.
The Inter-system gap is 2 spaces, which is awfully small.
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You have inter system gap set to 2
Jesper
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That did fix it, thanks; but something still puzzles me. The inter-system gap supposedly sets the minimum gap; but in my problem case, Dorico seems to be ignoring the bass figures, which should be taken into account in avoiding collisions, right? It feels as if the inter-system gap was giving me a maximum value, thus creating lots of collisions and crowding.
There’s a circular calculation that’s been described in these forums before: Dorico has to calculate how many systems it can put on a page before it puts them on the page, but it can’t do that until it knows what the music looks like, so it makes a rough guess.
Outside of the development team no-one knows exactly what’s considered and what isn’t in order to make said rough guess; it might be that Figures aren’t one of the things that’s considered.
Hi @wconable, applying the suggestions above (vertical spacing), together with some editing of the page templates, and some adjustments of the Page and music frame margins, and global note spacing and one frame break, and deleting the unnecessary (manual inserted) bar number in bar 60, and starting the layout from page 2, here a version with the Continuo Layout, on two pages (rastral size 6mm) obtainable in 3 minutes (made this as an exercise for me, hope it can help, if you compare the settings with your original file, using the Library Manager):
Dorico file example:
Flows from CervettoOpIIv3-CONTINUO ON 2PAGES.dorico (3.1 MB)
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Thanks, Christian,
This was very interesting and I learned a lot by studying it. As it happens, I prefer the larger rastral size that I originally used, but the tighter note spacing proved useful.
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