I am trying to get the soprano and alto to condense to just one stave. This works fine until I add the divisi in the alto part. Any way to force them to still condense?
I even tried just putting the div. part in downstem voice 1, but that also breaks the condensing.
Not sure if it’s possible, but I’m no condensing expert.
Jesper
I’m no expert on condensing either but I don’t think you can condense two players if one of them also has a divisi going on. I just tried that and the divisi keeps the two players on separate staves. I also can’t force them into one staff with a manual condensing change, the OK button is greyed out when you try that.
(I’m also no expert on vocal scores but I know from reading the forum that condensing vocal staves can have some difficulties of its own, you might want to do a forum search).
If you’re going to put them all on one staff, then the Altos need to be on the same stem, to show who is dividing. I don’t think you can achieve that from Divisi and Condensing.
Are you creating other Layouts with different staff arrangements? If not, then I wouldn’t use Divisi – just add an extra voice to the Altos.
Unless the Condensing is going to save you an extra sheet of paper, then I wouldn’t bother with that either! I can guarantee that someone will ask “how are we dividing those three notes”, even if the stemming is clear. 
