I have a reduced choir section instrument and, for a very brief passage, I need it to be divided in 3 staves for the SA and 3 staves for the TB.
If I use ‘Change divisi’, I can only act on the top stave, meaning that I can get 5 divisions for the SA + 1 existing TB stave. If I select the bottom stave and run ‘change divisi’, the dialogue appears, I can add the divisions, configure them, press OK without Dorico ever protesting or letting me know that something may be off.
Upon pressing OK, though, nothing happens for the bottom stave.
Is this a known limitation or something that I am doing wrong? Is there a way to use the existing instrument to achieve what I need?
Thanks!
I’ve managed to get four staves by dividing the top staff in 3, correctly getting the two choir staves to show the expansion arrows:
I’ve then written two S divisions in staff 1, the third (A) division in staff 2, changed clef to bass for staff 3 and written divisions 4-5 in there, and kept division 6 in staff 4. Not ideal but ok, it can work.
Upon restoring unison, I not only get a treble cautionary clef at the end of staff 3, but also the arrow points up. I understand why it is doing this, the division is from the top staff after all, but it still looks wrong and there seems to be no way around this with the current configuration:
Apparently yes, Daniel explains the cause here:
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