Can someone explain to me, using this example, how to get the altos and sopranos on one staff and the basses and tenors on one staff?
I understand that condensing isn’t an option for choir.
.Kom in mijn har.dorico (1,5 MB)
Select the first note in the altos, Edit→Select to end of flow, copy, select the first note in the sopranos, and Edit→Paste Special→Paste into voice→New downstem voice. Repeat for the tenor/basses.
Jesper
Kom in mijn har.dorico (1.3 MB)
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My suggestion is to add a player “Choir (reduction)”.
Then copy the soprano and tenor with Copy&Paste into the staves (you have to transpose the tenor an octave higher with ALT/OPTIONCTRL/CMD↑)
To copy alto and bass copy the alto line, then select the first soprano note in the reduced system and right-click > Paste Special > Paste Into Voice > New Down-stem Voice. Do the same for the bass line.
Then delete the four single staves.
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Yes, I did transpose the tenor first.
Jesper
Wrong. You can enable condensing for Section Players (In Layout options)
Set up manual condensing groups for S+A and T + B
(Tenor instrument is actually a kind of transposing instrument so written notes sound an octave lower. This means your current tenor part is actually an octave too low)
Here’s a file you can study for the settings…
Kom in mijn har-edit.dorico (1.4 MB)
To give you this…
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I seem to remember that there were some problems with choir condensing, but I might be wrong.
Jesper
It works thank you jesele
Thanks Vadian
You’re essentially right, Jannus.
But I watched a YouTube video that also discussed creating a vocal score. What I should have mentioned is that if you have a vocal score and you want to add lyrics, these lyrics aren’t always the same. For example, a soprano might sing different lyrics than an alto, or any other voice, and that could cause problems with condensation. That’s how I understood it.
Yes, but only if the choir voices have to sing lyrics 
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Ha, no biggie then.
Jesper