Dorico 5 Galley View - How To Eliminate Dashed Lines Between Certain Staves

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For some reason my Strings Section is showing dotted lines between each instrument staff in Galley View. None of my other instruments have this.

Don’t recall this happening before. This is in Dorico 5, probably won’t upgrade until after a long hospital stay.

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… I think these dotted lines appear when you have an instrument filter active.

When instrument filters are active, dashed lines are shown at the vertical positions of hidden staves

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I am using the filter function. In my Write Mode / Galley View score all the instruments are part of that filter, but only my strings show the dashes. Thanks for responding.

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Are the strings in their default order (like in Setup Mode), or do they have a different, Layout specific order?

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I haven’t done anything special in layouts for strings. I have several sets of strings available , though not in use for this project at this time, each of the five sections a different player in one player group in Setup, 1 VLNS >> DB.

Dashed Lines Screen Capture
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Player Group In Setup
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Hallo DaddyO,

  1. I notice you have your orchestral strings all setup as solo-players. Why is this?*
  2. The reason you see these dotted lines might be that you use filters and the solo-players play only one of their instruments at the time, I don’t know.

If you would sort 1), may be the lines would not show up.
*) in real life these would be section-players

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The dashed lines indicate that one or more staves is hidden, which will happen when an instrument filter is active.

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Thanks k_b and Daniel. Just now seeing your replies but heading out for awhile. Will reply later.

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Thanks for chiming in k_b.

I don’t use Dorico for real-life, only for composing and for mockups. And personally, for my purposes, I find the Solo Player with multiple instruments format easier to manage for sections with divisi (or other) capability. I find this more useful than the built-in section player functions like divisi, which would otherwise be the compelling reason to use section players.

If, as it appears from replies so far, including Daniel’s, the underlying cause is filters, I prefer the dashed lines to conforming to the standard, real-life distinction of Solo vs Section. To me Players are capsules for instruments to be used in whatever configuration make best sense for my particular use.

I came to this conclusion several years ago.

Again, thanks, and hopefully this answers your “why?” question.

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Thanks for answering, Daniel. Not sure why this does not appear to apply in every case, because I almost all my players have multiple instruments, many of which are hidden, but there must be some underlying technical reason. We have to work with what is, so I’ll just carry on.

Again, thanks.

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One of the ways I’ve made section players and divisi work together with independent palyback enabled is to

  1. Create two voices on the main staff
  2. create a divisi
  3. add notes to both voices in #1 and the single voice in #2
  4. route appropriately in Play mode (up-stem voice 1=section, down-stem voice 1=divisi A (staff 1), up-stem voice 1 (staff 2)=divisi B)

… very clean and does exactly what it’s supposed to.

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Thanks for sharing.