Vertical spacing error

What goes wrong here? The music will still change so don’t want to manually override positioning in engrave mode yet.

There is no ‘wait for next frame break’ and I just adjusted the inter system gap from 10 to 8 spaces. This is Dorico 3.0.10.

Thank you in advance!


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I cannot upload (a part of) this project on a public forum. I thought this might be expected behaviour in certain circumstances that I can circumvent in a known way? With still shrinking the default system gap, that is. :slight_smile:

(I remember to see many screenshots like this on this forum, but I could’nt find one when I searched this morning.)

There are various things that come up now and again, but there’s nowhere enough context shown in that screenshot to be able to give you a definitive answer.

After playing with the settings for some time, I think I understand how Dorico comes to this result: It doesn’t take system objects like tempo text and rehearsal marks into account before deciding how many systems fit on the page. It decides, based on the space size and inter system gap, that 11 systems should fit on the page, and if that’s not the case, it doesn’t move some systems to the next page.

I found out a very elegant solution: I deleted all rehearsal marks. They weren’t really needed anyway and now everything fits well on every page.

You could also have inserted a frame break manually at the end of the 10th system, just to check if it suited you?

Thank you for the suggestion, Marc! I will eventually do that. Since the music will probably still change, I’m currently trying to avoid hard breaks, because then I have to constantly update those breaks throughout the score when I add or remove bars :slight_smile:

This is a wise point of view. Keep the breaks for the end of the job :wink:

And working in Galley view until then should at least keep staves from overlapping.