Hello,
Dorico’s bracketing separates flutes from piccolos (and other extra instruments, like English horn, bass clarinet, etc). Is possible to bracket them together by default in the options?
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Is there any relevant solution to this issue? Or at least then what are the workarounds?
Go into Engrave mode.
Select the bracket.
Select the little square handle, on the side of the bracket that you want to extend.
Hold ALT, and press up or down (on the arrow keys) to extend or shrink the bracket.
(It will automatically latch to the next instrument, so you won’t need to line it up manually or anything).
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Thanks, but it’s still considered a workaround. I thought that maybe the issue of the “default” behavior had been resolved after all.
Anyway, thanks for the reply)
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There are different defaults in Layout options>Brackets and Braces. None of them use secondary brackets to group those flute type instruments, AFAIK. So using the bracketing tool would be the way to go 
I dunno if this one qualifies as a workaround, as it’s just the method for adjusting the brackets, and rather quick and easy.
I agree that the default bracketing is not what I’d do, in a symphonic orchestra score. Maybe in short pieces, there might be a dedicated piccolo part, but it’s less usual for pieces of any length (piccolo timbre gets old/tiresome quickly).
Granted, one could change the bracketing when the instruments change, if they really wanted to (IRL, anyway. I haven’t tried that in Dorico).
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Oh, really?
I to hope they introduce more flexibility with sub brackets soon. Sure you can add a bracketing change but that basically then breaks any rules you have established so can actually become more of a hassle.
It’s pretty clear there is no way to do this unless you go to engrave mode.
It might seem trivial, but if one has instrumental changes mid-way through back into two instruments which are the same (eg. Bass Clarinet to Clarinet 2), one ends up with a completely incorrect instrumental grouping between two instruments of the same family.
Therefore this problem is far from trivial, it goes against standard bracketing practice when this “instrumental change” situation occurs.
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