I just discovered that when I condense my homophonic divisi in the strings, in some instances, when div. and unis. change in the middle of a staff, the text doesn’t show up in the part, even though the signpost is there. See the below passage. In the first violins, it doesn’t show, in the second, it does:
So I simply tried to add the text with system text (Alt-Shift-x), but annoyingly, for some reason the system text also appears in the second violins, so they have it double (in different font sizes which aches in the eyes), and obviously in the full score they are also double. This is a large work and I already have so much work editing the parts, so I’d rather not have to control all divisi and add system text where the indication is lacking, and then having to go and hide it locally in the score and the other parts…
Is this a bug?
Any solution?
II didn’t find anything that helped me in the forum…
Hi @silvanloher, if you could upload a cut-down version of your Dorico file, we can look deeply at what is going on. It is difficult to diagnose the possible causes from a screenshot.
Thank you dear Christian! Here it is. I deleted the other flows and bars before and after this passage, and the problem is still there when I go to the violin I and violin II parts. If you find something out, I’m super grateful.
But I suspect it’s just that Dorico can’t handle changes between condensed div and unis in the middle of a stave…
I also found out yesterday that cues are not showing when condensing divisi which is a huge problem for me, too. But as far as I could find out in the forum, this is a known problem/bug and nothing to be done :-/. So for the future, I will only use the divisi feature for polyphonic passages and otherwise just write the music in one staff and create a divisi playing technique…
Note that if you remove the condensing change, the divisi labels reappear. However, this slightly changes the notation (it then starts with two voices).
yes I know, but I don’t want two staves for homophonic passages. It’s tricky enoigh with pageturns as it is . So I only use two staves in polyphonic divisi passages.
AH! I see now what you mean! Yeah, that’s strange, but it works as you say. I guess better som inconsistency in regard to having the divisi in different voices vs. in the same voice. I mean, it makes very little sense why Dorico puts the first two bars in different voices, but the next two in different voices:
Or you can keep your condensing change and add another one (a condensing reset) on the next bar. The labels will show up again from the reset, so you’ll just miss the first one, that you can add manually:
Hi @silvanloher, I made some further research (besides the suggestions above):
after deleting the forced condensing in bar 20, Dorico separates the voices because of the different dynamics in 1. and 2. (to be seen clearly in galley view).
For the next condensing phrase (after the rest in bar 21, the dynamics are the same and Dorico amalgamate the voices into 1 voice:
… and making the dynamics the same, at bar 20 (also adding an hairpin at bar 19), the result is clearer: the third eight note in bar 20 is separated on two voices probably to reinforce the div. label (after the unison D on the first eight note) and immediately after the voices are amalgamated (4th eight note in bar 20):
Result
. So I only use two staves in polyphonic divisi passages.
