Condensing varying section divisi

Dorico
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Hi,

I’ve a problem with the new (and fantastic) condensing divisi feature. It doesn’t always to what I want.

  • My Violins I and II (both sections) divide in two, then three parts (also sections) each.

  • Divisi happen more times in the score. One first time (a) only Vni II are divided by two. Later (b), after other changes between unison and divisi by two, Vni I divide by two and then three, and Vni II divide by three.

  • Automatic condensing makes Violins I into two staves (1+2 and 3), and Violins II into three staves (as if they were not condensed). On the contrary, I want them each in a single stave (Vni I, and Vni II), as Ravel imagined it (c).

I wonder if the problem is the change between division by two and three, or because the last change between two and three is in the middle of a page.

EDIT: Something else happened. As seen in the example, the second of three divisi parts of Vni I disappear from condensing, even with no condensing change in the score. When activating condensed view, the second divisi part simply disappear.

Paolo

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You can only change from unisoni to divisi in the middle of a system. You can’t change from one divisi to another, because the staves always extend across the complete system. For example Dorico doesn’t know how to write the music for “div a 2” on three staves, or “div a 3” on two staves.

Try putting a system break where the “div a 3” starts.

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Rob, that’s it! So, what I have to do is to use “divisi by three” even for part originally written as “divisi by two”. A manually-added label will show how it should be during a performance.

Paolo