Instruments Won't Condense in a Part of My Piece

For the Beauty of the Earth.dorico (2.8 MB)

From measures 141-153 the horn 1, 2 and trombone 1, 2 parts will not condense. I’m not sure why.

Hi @christianrgarnes, the culprit are the differently positioned breath marks in bar 148. They are not all attached at the same rhythmical position (in Galley view, if you select one you see the attachment point), and in trombone 2 was missing. Delete all but the first and use duplicate to staff below to be sure they are all the same:

Previous situation:

After correction:

Add-on: Actually Trombone 2 doesn’t need a breath mark. You can delete it, but you need to handle the condensing for that condensing phrase (between the rests in bar 140 and 149) with a manual condensing change, forcing the trombone 1 and 2 to condense manually.
Edit: or just give the trombone 2 breath mark a very big Start Offset Y value (like 9999) so it will be drawn outside the page:

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