I just want to set some canons and exercises with no specific player. Similarly I may want to make manuscript paper. I can’t see how to setup a score without having to actually create a player.
Are you supposed to pick any random instrument and not use the name and so on?
Is this just for printing? There are loads of MS paper resources on the internet. Here’s one:
Or it’s probably easiest just to draw 1 line in a drawing app; step-repeat it a set distance 4 times; then group, duplicate as many times as you need, and distribute evenly.
If you really want a Dorico project of MS paper, here’s one: