Multiple techniques (staves with varied number of staff lines for a single player)

[dspreadbury]

You might find these two threads helpful:

Changing the number of lines in a staff

hi dorico team and everyone, In most of my recent projects, I’ve needed to switch from a 5-line staff to a single-line staff in instances where a player (a string or wind/brass player for example) is playing an unpitched technique–or sometimes multiple unpitched techniques, in which case a 2- or 3- line staff would be helpful. In order to do this in Dorico, I’ve been using instrument changes, which works ok in many cases, however it also creates some problems: You can’t currently do instrume…

Staff styles

Hi Forum, Is it possible in the actual version of Dorico (or is it planned for the future) to change the number of staff lines of one instrument during the same piece? For example, in contemporary music for voice (Berio and others), but also for other instruments, it is current to change from 5-line staff to 3-line staff (or 1 or 0) just in some passages, then coming back 5-line staff. In Finale this is realized via something called “staff styles” and it can be applied to entire or partial me…

In short: we know this is important, and we do intend to address it, but it’s not likely to happen in the Dorico 4.x timeframe.