Character Name in Musical Theater

Is there a way to save Character Names so that each time that character sings, the name are saved somewhere so we don’t have to type it in each time??

Hi @David_Evans2, you have two possible ways (and a third ways that is experimental…):

  1. you don’t need to type the names every time, just select the character label in another place of the piece and alt click it to the desired position. You can create a Paragraph Style for this labels, to habe for example a border, etc

or

  1. you can define custom Playing Techniques with text. And just invoke them with the popover or from the PT panel. You can also define a Font Style (unfortunately no Paragraph Style) to assign to these Characters “playing technique”-labels:
  1. there is also a way where you put your singers into the same player, and use instrument changes so the labelling is automatic when they are on the same staff, but I don’t know if this can have some disadvantages. This is a little experimental and dont know if it would be good approach:

Dorico file example:
multiple singers in one player.dorico (668.7 KB)

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