I’ve been looking at a number of orchestral scores recently, and for staves of 2 players (which is by far the most common type of condensing), most of them use either two-note chords or two separate voices (with floating rests), so that instrument labels are very rarely used. Usually, there’s only the occasional ‘a 2’ for prolonged unison passages.
While this can currently be done, it requires a lot of manual Condensing Changes.
If Notation Options provided settings to achieve this style, it would be a massive time-saver. I’m sure this has been requested before, but just thought I’d mention it while it was fresh in my mind.
Again, I find myself trying to match what seems to be a ‘standard’ for Condensing in published scores:
By default: separate voices on two stems and no labels
a2 and single stem for unison phrases
“1” or “2” for phrases only by one player.
Brass in single-stem chords when homo-rhythmic.
I don’t think this it’s possible to do separate voices by “default” in Dorico? I have to use Manual Condensing to force double stems, and then Reset Condensing whenever single-stem a2 is required; and vice versa.
