I’ve read the previous thread…
Please can I request a way to turn off lyrics for a player in a particular layout?
I have an exploded S A T B score, which I also want to produce as an SA TB two-stave score.
The first requires lyrics below every stave. The second only needs the soprano’s lyrics in between the two staves.
The best way at the moment seems to duplicate flow, then delete.
I would suggest you simply delete the lyrics from the ATB parts in your other layout, since you have to manually perform the reduction anyway.
That’s what I’ve done, for now. Will lyrics be part of the eventual solution for divisi and reductions?
Not for divisi, but hopefully we will be able to take lyrics into account when producing a condensed staff from individual players.
Great! Cues and pedalling have set the bar high…!
which bar number ?
just joking 
pardon me for correcting you Steve : the goal is not a high level, it is just to be perfect
New user here searching these forums… Any progress on this yet since 2018? Either amalgamating lyrics from SATB parts (or 4 stave score) for a SA TB two-stave condensed score? It seems to “partially” work – as long as I don’t mind having the SA and TB stems combined (but even here I get 2 duplicate lyrics lines in between the staves. But if I want to have S with stems up and A with stems down, the lyrics are duplicated above and below the staff and I have 4 duplicate lyrics lines on my condensed staff. Perhaps I am missing a lyrics setting? I made sure to duplicate the lyrics so there were no discrepancies.
Welcome to the forum @MS_OMT !
Unless you need to show your choir on condensed staves in one layout but separate staves in another, I’d recommend in this case to consider not using the automatic condensing feature, because the lyric handling is still literal there.
For example, you could create two section players (one for S/A, another for T/B), write their music using voices and divisi as needed.
Or, when using automatic condensing, only give the lower voice part lyrics for these sections (but that would mean if you needed to show them uncondensed in another layout, the sopranos wouldn’t have lyrics).
Thanks! I appreciate the quick reply!
For the most part, I don’t see myself needing to have separate staves. I found the “choir” instrument which essentially gives me a grand staff and will use the voices to separate S/A and T/B. (I think that’s most familiar to me coming from Finale’s layers).
The score/instrument layouts seem so much more intuitive than in Finale, so I thought to give it a try, but it’s unnecessary for my current use case.
Thanks!
Honestly, my approach at present is to have S A T B and a “choir reduction” stave. When I need the condensed look, I just put everything on the reduction stave, and then break out to the other staves when that is needed. All you have to do is shift at system breaks. It’s really not that difficult, and with copy and paste and shortcuts for move to stave above/below, it’s very quick to figure this all out.