Condensing SATB

Dorico
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Is there a way to do the Elaine Gould-styled condensing of SATB where condensing similar lyrics for all SATB result in one line between the staves and condensing similar dynamics result in dynamics being outside the staves?

At the moment I can achieve this by using the Choir (reduction) , but this doesn’t leave me with the staff labeling I like (purple addition to the screenshot).

This is for huge scores, so I would like the ability to condense as much as possible and then open it up in the part. The screenshot is just a crude example.

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At the moment I don’t think condensing can do this, unfortunately.

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Unless you are planning to make a choral score with 4 separate staves, there is no need to write them that way. The current best practice is to write stems up & down directly on 2 vocal staves, the way they will be read.

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