Help with percussion staffing


I’m hoping somebody can help me with this! I’m starting to use Dorico for writing for a marching band this summer. All I want is a normal 5-line staff, but it continually gives me this 7 line monstrosity! I have tried editing everything, and I have already gone in and changed the layout to five line for the percussion layout. I’m out of ideas

I just reopened Dorico and it’s not displaying fine? Guess it fixed itself!

Welcome to the forum @n.johnson1791
Also remember to have the correct layout selected in the right side
when setting percussion to 5-line in Layout Options.

Jesper

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Hi @n.johnson1791,

This is called Grid view, that, as @jesele suggested, you can change from Layout Options/Players/Percussion. Select the Full Score layout on the right panel of layout options, before you apply the desired change:

CleanShot 2025-02-04 at 19.54.14

Here more infos in the Manual:

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