Under Hiding/Showing notation staves and tablature in Dorico’s User Manual, the instruction for adding a tablature staff says to go to Layout Options >Players>Fretted Instruments. When I click on Players (under Players), nothing happens—the Fretted Instruments category does not appear. I’ve selected Layout Options under every mode, and a layout is selected in the Layouts list on the Layout Options page. Has tablature setup been moved? I’m using version 5.1.81.2225.
Hi @Nancy_Piver, the Fretted instrument submenu appears in Layout Options/Players only if you have at least one fretted instrument in your setup.
If you imported an XML it can be possible that the instrument definition was not correct in the XML, and Dorico assigned a non fretted instrument to that player.
To correct this click, in Setup mode, the three little dots near the instrument name, then choose Change Instrument and choose one desire fretted instrument.
That would suggest that your score does not include any fretted instruments.