Display staff labels selectively

Dorico
1

Is there a better way to do this?

I’m making a choral-vocal score, and I’m hiding staves, so I need to label staves when they change.

When I add a system break and show the labels, it shows the piano label as well, which I don’t want. But if I change the abbreviated staff names, it messes up my full score.

I’ve tried adding staff text instead, but I don’t want it to show in the full score. And when I drag it off the page (which is a little cumbersome), I can’t select it again later.

Is there a better solution, either a “proper” one on the horizon, or a better workaround for now?

2

Difficult to know from that one screenshot, but is there something clever you can do with divisi? I’m not sure whether you’re condensing or anything.

3

I don’t think that’s the solution here. I have a tenor soloist, a baritone soloist, and two choir staves (SA and TB). I’m not condensing either (just solo winds, strings, percussion, vocals).

Here’s the file, in progress: Dropbox - File Deleted - Simplify your life

4

Try making the piano a section player. Then you can change the instrument name (to blank) with a divisi change.

I have used a similar trick to get a collection of piano exercises labeled 1, 2, 3, etc where the instrument name would normally go.

5

Ah, thanks Rob. Maybe that was what Leo was referring to. I’ll try it.

6

It would be infinitely easier if we could hide staff text on a per-layout basis…