Dorico’s solution will work the other way: you will enter the music for each player independently, and then Dorico will show it on a combined staff (or staves, depending on the number of instruments and the complexity of the music). So for choral music you would enter the soprano music and lyrics as usual, and the alto music and lyrics as usual, and Dorico would then show it to you on a combined staff, with only a single set of lyrics where possible.
Is there any way it could understand where, say, S and A lyrical rhythms diverge and auto put S above the staff?
Will it take a worst-case view of things like the extender lines, so that, if they’re needed in A but not S, Dorico would know to show them?
It’s impossible to say until we actually get into the implementation, but obviously my hope would indeed be that it could automatically place soprano lyrics above the staff only when needed.
Thanks Daniel. I’ve no doubt it will be a massive time saver.