Hi, It would be so great if I could end the year by solving this problem that has been bothering me for over a week… My layout is impossible because of what looks very much like a bug in Dorico: even if I explicitly ask for condensation, it doesn’t always do it… Example here: in measures 56 and 57,…

Hi @rakatafla , with condensing issues is always better to upload a cut-down Dorico Project, to be able to diagnose the cause without guessing. Happy New Year’s Eve everybody.

Hi, How do I do a “cut-down”? Thanks,

It’s just a way of keeping the file smaller and more focused. You can delete measures (and flows) before and after the passage you’re interested in, and delete other players, then save as a new file – as long as what you wind up with still demonstrates the issue.

Folks, he sent me the project and I solved the issues. Some manual condensing here and there, condensing changes, and voilà :wink: Happy New Years Eve everyone !

I was wondering whether just erasing the lower unison part and then copy/pasting the upper part would erase some minor discrepancy in positioning or the like that we couldn’t detect. Glad you solved it for him.

Aleatory condensing and amalgamation with Choir

Dorico

Christian_R December 31, 2025, 4:59pm 5

Hi @rakatafla, adding to the kind suggestion by @asherber, here a very helpful general post (you find a further detailed workflow to cut-down a project at #4):