I wonder if the behaviour of this condensed part’s labels represents a bug:
If I choose the Layout option “Staff labels on first system/None” I get the full name;
If I choose “Staff labels on first system/Abbreviated” I get the abbreviated name…
In the other instruments which start uncondensed everything is fine.
Check the state of the options in the Divisi labels section just below the part you’ve clipped in your screen grab.
Do you mean the following box?
No matter if I choose “Hide” or “Follow options” the full name is always displayed.
No, I mean the options immediately below the ones shown in your screenshot in the Staves and Systems page of Layout Options.
I checked that. I can hide the numbers, not the name. All I can get is the abbreviation.
Hi @lim.usic : what @dspreadbury means are the Layout Options/Staff and Systems/Staff labels (divisi labels) options.
Here three pictures of three possible settings and results (considering that in Change Divisi window all is set to Follow Options):
Yes, I understood this; but there is obviously no option to display the labels with section numbers (1,2,3) together with hidden instrument labels. And I still don’t understand why the staff labels or first sytem option “Abbreviated” produces correct abbreviated names, whereas the option “None” produces full names…
As far as I can see this might have something to do with condensing, which seems to force instrument labels to show up.
It seems that if you allow the inner staff labels (section numbers) to appear, then Dorico wants to display the outer staff labels (instrument names) as well, even if you have set staff labels to none in the layout options. If you really want to display the section numbers without the instrument names, you could change the full and short instrument names to a space and rename the player to restore the original names:
Thank you, yes, this works, a workaround, not very elegant though. But it helps at the moment!
