I’m working in Dorico 5 on barbershop music and want to create staff labels with 2 lines, for example, instead of “tenor lead” I want it to be like this
tenor
lead
I’ve read various topics in the Dorico healp about staff labels, but can’t find anything that seems to address this topic although I’ve see such staff labels on templates.
In the left panel of Setup mode, click the arrow to the left of the Tenor player to reveal the instrument. Then click the … icon to the right of the Tenor Instrument. You can now go either of two ways: from the menu that appears, click Edit Instrument Name to edit just this instance of the Tenor, or click Edit Instrument Definition to edit all instances of the Tenor within this project (also with the possibility of saving the edited instrument definition as default, so it’ll be available in future projects).
Then type what you want, including the line break, into the Instrument Names dialog that appears.
One of the updates included in Dorico 6.02 was a Barbershop Quartet template. It includes the staff labels that you describe. (@dspreadbury worked with the Barbershop Harmony Society to adapt it to their specs.) I don’t know if you can download it separately but you might be able to get it through the free trial!
— Jim
I did that for both staffs (tenor lead and bari bass) and it worked only for the first treble and bass staffs. The remaining staffs had the single line labels (tenorlead, for example). And I did copy the two line names as both the full names and the short names.
Bob
I discovered (after a lot of playing around and getting very frustrated) that the “trick” to getting the 2 line names, which were the short names, displayed past the first treble and bass staffs was to actually type the names in, rather than copying and pasting the definitions from the full names (since both were to be the same). Once I had typed in the names, as in tenor, next line, lead for the short name the result was what I wanted.