Instrument Name Colliding with Instrument Number in Staff Labels

[Michael_Brinzer]

Anyone know how I’ve jumbled my settings to have this happen?

Trying to have all my doubling woodwinds condensed like Flute 1&2 (when playing together), but when doubling - for it to be:

Oboe / English Horn or Bb Clarinet / Bass Clarinet

Any ideas?

[Michael_Brinzer]

unless that’s maybe not possible and I should just have to suffice with having everything labeled Oboe 1, Oboe 2, English Horn… even though that’s not ideal…

[Michael_Brinzer]

although, that then creates a problem of the Oboes not condensing when they’re playing together…

A pickle!

[jesele]

Can you share the file?

Jesper

[Janus]

Have you set the Layout Option to allow instrument changes on condensed staves?

[Michael_Brinzer]

After some finagling, I’m narrowing in on an answer…

Has to do with Engraving Options > Staff Labels > Horizontal Position.

Posting what it’s like with the second line set to 4 and and set to 6.

But now, I have the problem of my doubling instruments not being aligned with the rest of the woodwinds.

Reduced File Attached, thanks

[Michael_Brinzer]

here you go

staff label misalignment example.dorico (1.7 MB)

[Michael_Brinzer]

and this had no effect, but thanks for giving it a shot!

[Janus]

I may be misremembering, but I don’t think you can condense instruments with different transpositions.

[charles_piano]

Some of your instrument numbering are manual (“Flute 1”) and some are not.

You could try: Setup Mode > Setup Menu > Reset Instrument Names (but it will turn back all instrument names to the defaults, which maybe you don’t want), or one by one (for flute, clarinet…)

[Michael_Brinzer]

Ah, Charles you hit the nail on the head. In experimenting with solutions, I forgot to set my Flutes, Oboes and Clarinets back to the standard. With them both being the same name, that solves it. (With the Engraving options I mentioned earlier) Thanks all!!