User manual

RELATED LINKS
Optical spacing for cross-staff beams on page 518
Creating cross-staff beams on page 517
Staff spacing
The vertical positioning of staves and systems within frames is known as staff spacing. Staff
spacing calculations consider the height of staves and the necessary gaps between staves and
systems.
● You can change the default vertical and staff spacing settings for each layout independently
on the
Vertical Spacing page in Setup > Layout Options.
The options available allow you to set your ideal spacing, which Dorico Elements then produces
as closely as possible. We recommend familiarizing yourself with the available vertical spacing
options.
RELATED LINKS
Staff size on page 341
Staves on page 801
Changing the default staff/system spacing on page 333
Changing the staff spacing in galley view on page 365
Changing the default staff size on page 333
Note spacing on page 361
Per-layout vertical spacing options
Dorico Elements provides multiple options that you can use to control the default vertical spacing
and justication of staves and systems in each layout.
● You can access per-layout vertical spacing options by choosing Setup > Layout Options and
clicking Vertical Spacing in the page list.
The Vertical Spacing page contains the following sections and options:
Ideal Gaps
Contains multiple scenarios that allow you to set the gap you want Dorico Elements to
allow between staves and systems in the corresponding context, including the default
scaling of these gaps in galley view, as Dorico Elements does not automatically avoid
collisions between staves and items in galley view. The options are accompanied by
diagrams to help you visualize the contexts to which each option applies.
We recommend setting the ideal gaps to the minimum value acceptable to you
because Dorico Elements never reduces the gap between staves to less than your set
values. Setting smaller values gives Dorico Elements greater exibility when
determining staff spacing, particularly in 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
Layout and formatting
Staff spacing
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