Hello there! Does anyone know how to set bracketing behavior for custom instruments/variants? I made a custom 2-stave Violin instrument, which I am trying to get in a brace within the Strings bracket. I am able to get the brace, but for some reason it does not attach to the strings bracket. When I do extend the bracket, the brace goes away.
The variant I made is in the strings family, so I am not sure what other setting there is to influence how it connects to the other brackets. Thanks in advance!
Something else related to this -I’d like to tweak the vertical positioning of group labels. Is that possible? Here I am using 2 Clarinet variants I made, and a Bass Clarinet. I’d like to brace all Clarinets together, as it’s customary in studio work. I am able to move the brace to include all 3 instruments, however the group name stays in the same place. Looks silly. Is there a way to tweak it so it’s centered with the rest of the brace?
Hello Daniel, thanks for chiming in. Hopefully it is a feature that can be added in the near future. More often than not scoring sessions have “unorthodox” line-ups. It would be great to have the flexibility to accomodate those scenarios -either allowing vertical adjustment, or adding an option to keep the staff name centered on the brace (just brainstorming here FWIW).
As for my initial question, do you know if it’s possible to get a sub-brace for a two-staff custom instrument in the same bracket with instruments of the same family? (like the Violin example I have above)
Thank you for your time!
You could change the instrument names for the first clarinet to 1, the second clarinet to Clarinet 2, and the bass clarinet to Bass with Show transposition set to Never for all three instruments. If you add a sub-bracket spanning the staves for these instruments and change the appearance of the sub-bracket to a brace, the score could look like this:
Then you will need to rename the clarinet layouts to restore sensible names for their parts.
Thank you all for the suggestions!
For the clarinets another solution I was pointed to by a Dorico veteran is to use a single “ensemble” Bb Clarinet, then divide and rename accordingly. Copying would then happen on hidden dummy staves. That’d be a passable solution, especially on jobs where we have an external music house handling copying, as they would end up pasting the music into their own parts template for all parts. Obviously that is less than ideal on those situations where we do copying in house. It adds extra steps, and potential for mistakes (John’s solution might be a better fit for those scenarios). Either way, I am happy there are workarounds -hopefully a proper/supported alternative in coming updates as Daniel suggested.
