Keyboard instument braces

Dorico
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I am a many-years’ Finale user recently converted to Dorico. I am currently using Dorico 5 under Windows 10.

My current project is a choral/orchestral work that his parts for organ (2-staves only) and piano. On some pages their braces show up, and on some they don’t.

For each of these keyboard instruments, the INSTRUMENT DEFINITIONs under SETUP show 2 STAVES, 5 LINES PER STAFF, and SPAN OF BRACKET = 2. This information is all the same for same for PIANO (IN SCORE), PIANOFORTE, ORGANO, and ORGAN(1).

For the first of the layout options: ENSEMBLE TYPE is ORCHESTRAL, and BARLINE JOINS is set to FOLLOW PRIMARY BRACKETS

I have the subsequent options set as follows:

USE SECONDARY BRACKET

SUB-BRACKETS

NO BRACKET

DRAW BRACE

DRAW SUB-BRACKET

DO NOT DRAW SUB-BRACKET

DRAW SUB-BRACKET

Could my brace problem have to do with a BRACKET AND BARLINE CHANGE, of which I have several in the score? Is there some way to show the details of these BRACKET AND BARLINE CHANGEs, e.g.,which parts of the score are affected? and how each one sets up the brackets and barlines?

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Hello Aaron,
welcome to the forum.
Trying to approach this in the easiest way (the Dorico way).

If you have already done a lot of manual bracket changes, select all those brown flags and delete them, so you can start anew.

1st) in your Layout Options select the general bracketing style.
2nd) if you don’t get the result you are aiming for, go to Engrave Mode and change the bracketing manually at the beginning of your flow(s)
That should be it.

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Thanks! I played around with your suggestions, and finally took care of the bracing problem by deleting some of the CHANGE BRACKET AND BARLINE flags.

Is there a quick way to delete all of these, or does it need to be done one-at-a-time?

I have a lot to learn about this bracketing stuff!

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Dorico offers the command “Select More…” (of the same kind). I would try whether it works with Bracket change.
Select one instance of Bracket change (the brown flag), then via the Edit menu “Select More…”
and see whether more brown flags get selected.
If yes, you can then hit “Delete” (backspace).
I am not at my computer, so I can’t check myself, but you should give it a try.