Difficulties condensing choral material with matching lyrics but non-matching rhythm

When condensing choral material, for any passages that are not in rhythmic unison Dorico will split up otherwise equivalent lyrics into two sets of displayed lyrics (above and below). I guess this is technically correct – but still, for a quite trivial example like the one below, it doesn’t really make practical sense:

2024-06-27_222811

Am I missing some vital option somewhere? Or is my only choice to delete one instance of the ‘conflicting’ lyrics? I’d like to avoid the latter method, because I might want to show my choir condensed in the full score, but uncondensed in the vocal score.

1 Like

No, there are no options for this at the moment. Dorico isn’t clever enough to know that it needs to ensure that complete words are shown on each side of the staff. We need to add substantially more intelligence to condensing of vocal music, since ideally we should also consider the lyrics when determining how the condensing itself should be performed.

3 Likes