Flow Numbers as Staff Labels?

Dorico
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Does anyone know of an easy way to use flow numbers as staff labels?

Frequently, with sets of pieces in one form (i.e., 24 Preludes for Piano) for a solo instrument, the piece’s number within the opus is used in the first system’s staff label position. I have used two methods to achieve this, but neither is ideal: 1) A text object applied to the first note of the first measure; aligning them consistently is always the challenge. 2) In shorter sets, I have used multiple players of the same instrument, labeled numerically, and assigned chronologically to each flow. This second option eliminates the alignment problems, but it seems too small a result for such a big workaround.

If a better approach exists, please fill me in. The use of tokens would be great, but I can’t think of a way to make it work currently. Maybe the team could add a check-box in the layout options that allows the staff labels to use flow numbers instead of instrument names or players. I realize this would not be a high-priority item, but it would help me a lot.

Thanks, everyone! -C

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There’s no good way to do this at the moment, Chase, but it’s been requested before and I agree that it would be a useful thing for Dorico to be able to do.

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Thank you for the info. I’ll stick with my current workaround until other options can be implemented.