Condensing Cautionary Accidentals?

Lots of posts about Cautionary/Courtesy Accidentals, but I couldn’t find one that discussed condensing them.

I’m reproducing a public domain score. The horns III & IV parts are lightly peppered here and there with courtesy accidentals. I’ve manually entered them in their individual instrument parts. However, not a single one of them appears in the condensed horns III & IV parts.

I’ve played with the many notation options for accidentals to no avail–probably because these are just courtesy accidentals. I’ve explored the Condensing Changes dialogue.

Will they just not condense? Or is there a way to do this I’ve yet to discover? This is my first Dorico project ever–learning and loving the software as I go.

Thx

In Notation Options>Condensing>Accidentals, you need to select “Propagate to condensed staves”

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Thanks! So much to learn!!

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This setting doesn’t seem to propagate all accidentals. Here’s a passage in (divisi) octaves, and on the second note only the upper accidental appears.

Condensed accidentals.dorico (494.0 KB)

Yes, strange. It seems that the Property Override is activated, but the setting stays on hide, for the lower note, when condensed… It looks like a bug.

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