Dear Team,
That’s something I don’t think I experienced before. No matter what I choose as a Language for my instruments names, the token for layout names always resorts to the English name, even if it shows perfectly as desired (French) in the Layouts list in Setup mode. I have 5.1.32 and I think this bug is new. Using the Reset Instrument Names command does not change this. So I’m stuck with English instrument names on the top of my parts…
I spotted this while working on a project in 5.1.30, so I’m not sure it’s new as such.
The weird thing here is that it only affects some parts. I suspect it may be that some of the layouts have manually been overridden at some point.
Anyway, the fix is to double-click on the layout name in the right panel of Setup mode and click the circular arrow (reset to default) that appears:
Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be an option to globally reset layout names (though of course if you haven’t yet laid out the parts, deleting them and using Setup > Create Default Part Layouts will fix this).
I can assure you I had not touched the layouts… and it’s always the cello layout. In every project I’ve been doing today (five different projects, and weirdly enough, I haven’t used the library manager to get things faster…)
I will try your solution out first thing tomorrow morning!
I’ve tried it and it does indeed solve the problem.
OK - what’s weird is that in all the projects I try it’s always the strings that are the problem.
I’ve done a little experimenting, and it seems that if I create a new orchestral project in Dorico 5.1.32, then change the Instrument Names language, all the layout names update correctly.
If I create a new orchestral project in Dorico 4, change the Instrument Names language, all the layout names update correctly.
But if I create a new orchestral project in Dorico 4, save the file exactly as it is - with no notes or anything - then open that project in Dorico 5 and update the instrument names language, the string parts don’t update their layout name.
So at some point in the Dorico 5 cycle something’s been done that’s broken something in older projects.
Hopefully this is something the development team can look into.
That’s weird. All the projects I’ve been been working on and that exhibit the problem were created from scratch in 5.1.32. Not sure what’s going on, but since you gave me the solution, I don’t care too much (and the client is not a publisher so that is the kind of detail that won’t matter too much!)
Are you starting from an empty file, a factory template or a user template?
Xml import, mainly…