Hello everyone, I’m experiencing a strange issue after copying and pasting notes on a template. It seems like the notes and rests are squished on top of each other. This only happens in the 2nd page, it’s quite strange.
Can anyone help me figure out the setting for fixing this?
If I need to share my project then I’ll be more than happy to.
Welcome to the forum, @chancholoraq !
It’s very likely that you have a system break or frame break at the start of the page that has the property “Wait for next break” set. That tells Dorico to keep everything between the break and the next one (or the end of the flow) on that system/frame.
If you turn on display of signposts (View > Signposts) then you should see this. If you don’t see any signposts there, then posting your project file would help someone see what’s going on.
Thanks for replying so quickly!
I couldn’t see the signposts after checking the menu, and even after compressing my project file it won’t let me upload since it’s 6 mb.
is there any other way I can share my project?
If you go to Play > Playback Template and apply the Silence template, it will make your file smaller. (Save it with a different filename.)
Or you can upload to a file sharing service and post a link here.
Or you can save a cut-down version that only has the first few pages.
Thank you! I applied the silence template, here is my project file.
Final Score Test.dorico (1.7 MB)
I do want to share that when I copy and paste individual instrument lines, it does not produce the same clumping/squishing effect!
There’s something strange on that page that I don’t completely understand. It looks like there are several measures which Dorico thinks are measure 20, and that appears to be what’s causing the problem. If you delete the time signatures in those bars, then the music spaces correctly.
Did you maybe add a bunch of time signature changes in the middle of measures, expecting that Dorico would add the extra beats? Or was this maybe an XML import?
If you look at the pink bar on the right of page 3 you will see that the page is overloaded – 143%.
::: Bill
also quite a few of the Time Signatures don’t add up. if you correct the time signatures where there are not enough beats in the bar ie. 5/4 to 2/4 the bars will space properly
Thank you everyone for your support!
This was a dorico export from cubase 14, and I’m copying these notes to a pre-configured template. I will check out these mislabeled time signatures, thank you!
Oof thanks for pointing out the time signatures, I pasted in the completely wrong location. This is probably why things got messed up, thanks again everyone!
Yes, the cause is this setting
@chancholoraq if you really need 8 bars per system, you may want to use a smaller rastral size, or a landscape orientation, (togheter with) smaller default note space. Or just deactivate that option and let Dorico space the music for you.
Wow, absolutely incredible support and response time. Thank you all so so so much!! everything is as smooth as butter now, in record time!!
Well, combined with the strange time sig issues. There appear to be more than 8 bars on that system, but Dorico thinks that several of them are bar 20, so it’s counting all of those as 1 bar.
Sure, I was just saying that setting (in interaction with other layout options) is causing the system to be over 100% full.
