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very full frames, such as reducing the space between staves with no dynamics to allow more
space between staves with dynamics. Similarly, we recommend setting vertical spacing options
after you have nished inputting notes and items, as this allows you to consider the entire
project when setting these options.
Depending on the context, the options are affected by automatic vertical justication in different
ways:
● Staff to staff, Staff group to staff, Staff to staff group, Staff group to staff group,
Inter-system gap, and Timecode staff to staff
These gaps do not apply in frames that are automatically justied.
●
Braced staff to braced staff and Ossia staff to staff
These gaps always apply, including in frames that are automatically justied, because braced
and ossia staves are never
justied. This includes extra staves.
NOTE
●
Divisi staves are vertically justied when they use the Staff to staff gap. When they use the
Braced staff to braced staff gap, the staves in each divisi section use only the gap set for
braced staves and are not vertically justied.
●
If the staves in a layout are very close together, just decreasing the staff size might be
sucient to produce good results.
● When calculating the number of systems that can t in each frame in a layout, Dorico
Elements considers the height of staves, the minimum gaps between staves, the maximum
distances between very high/low notes and staves, and other items that require vertical
space, such as pedal lines and tempo marks. However, this calculation happens before
horizontal spacing is
nalized, which can result in either more or fewer systems being
allocated to frames than ideally t. In such circumstances, you can use xed casting off
settings and system/frame breaks to change which systems appear in frames.
Minimum Gaps
Contains options for the minimum gaps you want Dorico Elements to allow for items in addition
to the staff spacing gaps.
● Automatically resolve collisions between adjacent staves and systems: When activated,
Dorico Elements automatically allows extra space between staves and systems to avoid
collisions. When deactivated, Dorico Elements only uses your set gaps for vertical spacing,
which produces evenly-spaced staves and systems but with the possibility of collisions
between items.
● Minimum inter-staff gap with content: Allows you to set the extra space you want to allow
between staves when items are present.
●
Minimum inter-system gap with content: Allows you to set the extra space you want to
allow between systems when items are present.
NOTE
Minimum gaps do not affect casting off. For example, increasing the Minimum inter-system
gap with content value changes the space above/below systems on a page but does not push
systems to later pages. Instead, you can change the ideal gaps.
Layout and formatting
Staff spacing
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