Trying my hand at Condensing in a Classical score. I’m getting different styles of numbering for different instruments, and I can’t see where to change it.
I’m sure it’s something obvious. I have searched, but there’s a ‘lot’ about condensing labels…
Basically, I want the Brass’s numbers to be vertically aligned, like the Wind.
I’m not in front of it but from memory it’s the option for whether stem directions should be considered in staff labels. Sorry not to point you right to it; hopefully that
Bingo. That’s it.
Engraving Options > Staff Labels.
(Relevant bit of the manual is here - condensing / player labels are the ones shown above staves. Anything to the left of the initial barline is a “staff label”)
Thank you benwiggy. I got lost a bit in these settings. You really helped me out!
This has come up a few times in the last fortnight. I still can’t comprehend it. Is Dorico’s decision to do with material that first appears in that staff?
The player numbers are shown on a single line when the material for both players are assigned to the same voice at the start of the system, and shown on separate lines when the players are assigned to different voices on the same staff.
I wish there could be some way of doing a manual custom override of these number alignment settings in the Engraving Options mentioned above.
For this particular score I want this for Violins:
But the required setting for that results in this for all my brass and winds, which I do not want:
I prefer these on one line. In a perfect world, for Horns I could have a mixture of both, which represents how they appear in the score, i.e. two players on a line separated by a line break:
1.3
2.4
But as far as I can tell there is no variation on the settings which allow for this.
I understand some of these variations would be technically inconsistent but I feel it is totally clear in context. Let me know if I’m missing something here!
I guess the names are not exactly the same. Maybe one is labelled “Flauto 1” and the other “Flauto 2” instead of calling both “Flauto” and leaving the numbering to Dorico?
Thank you for your guessing. I just checked, all instrument names for flute are exactly the same. To make sure they 100% are I even manually copied and pasted instrument names from one instrument label to another, but still have the same result.
I think this is the typical case of “We can’t help more without seeing the actual file.”
Here’s the excerpt of the actual score where the issue still exists.
MUSICAL KALEIDOSCOPE_example.dorico (1.1 MB)
Open Layout Options for the score, go to “Staves and Systems”. You have activated to show player names instead of instrument names for Flauto 2, which seems to mess things up here. Deactivate it and you are good 
@Estigy thank you very much for your help. I must have been checked that box accidentally and later couldn’t figure out why I had such thing in the beginning of the score. 
