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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.
Vertical Justication
Contains options that allow you to control the frame fullness thresholds above which
you want staves and/or systems to justify vertically automatically.
● Justify distance between staves and systems when frame is at least [n]% full:
When frames are lled above this threshold, the staves and systems they contain
are all automatically vertically justied, meaning they are evenly distributed to ll
the height of the frame. Frames lled below this threshold are not automatically
justied, instead staves follow your ideal gap settings. This can leave gaps between
the bottom staff/system and the bottom of the frame.
● Justify distance only between systems when frame is at least [n]% full: When
frames are lled above this threshold, only the distance between systems in the
frame is justied. Staves follow your per-layout ideal gap settings. This helps keep
a clear distance between systems on very full pages.
●
Justify staves when frame with single system is above this threshold: When
activated, all the staves in a single system taller than the set threshold are
vertically
justied, which distributes them evenly to ll the height of the frame.
Hide Empty Staves
Contains options allowing you to control when and which empty staves are hidden in
the layout.
●
Hide empty staves: Allows you to control when empty staves are hidden. For
example, it is a common practice to show all staves in the rst system even if some
are empty, but this is not always required.
Layout and formatting
Staff spacing
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Dorico Elements 3.1.10