Can someone help me with labeling the horns? I wanted them to condense in a specific way so that I would have 2 staves with 2 on a part. Horn 1 and 3, and Horn 2 and 4. The vertical group labeling is a bit of an eye sore and I can’t figure out how to change the labeling. See below:
I wouldn’t use player group labels for this; instead, set up condensing groups with Horns 1/3 and 2/4.
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If I can ask a somewhat adjacent question, I see you use a forward slash in your post as a divider (Horn 1/3 and 2/4). That caught my attention because I’ve been looking for exactly that in Dorico lately, but the only separators I found in the settings are a space, dot or comma. I started doubting my own perception as I could swear I see the forward slash in the wild just as often as the other options, especially in horn parts, so it puzzled me that I couldn’t choose that in Dorico. Seeing you use it in your post somewhat restored my self confidence there ;). So my question would be, is it possible in Dorico to get the forward slash to show as a divider for the player numbers for condensed groups in the score?
I don’t believe that is possible in Dorico as it stands, no. Sorry if my phone-based forum posting punctuation misled you!
No worries, thanks for clarifying! Will the possibility be added in the future? It’s a bit of an odd lack of flexibilty I think, especially since the forward slash as a separator for consolidated horn staves is fairly common I believe. But maybe I’m wrong there.
If you find an example of this slash divisi notation, could you please post it here? I don’t think I’ve seen it in printed music but I could be wrong.
I have to say I never actually paid much attention to it when looking at existing scores, so when doing a search just now I came to the conclusion that this is probably a (European?) wind band/concert band/fanfare band thing. Which would explain the absence of the option in Dorico since that’s pretty niche.
Just a couple of examples here and here. The hyphen is also pretty common there (e.g. here and here), but that’s also not an option in Dorico. You’ll also find the & being used occasionally.
I’m perfectly fine with using one of the standard alternatives in Dorico, but it just struck me as odd that the separator is strictly limited to three options, whereas other elements can be edited with free text fields:
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