I’m getting strange condensing results and would like to know why and what I can do about it. In the score on one page, french horns 1 and 3 are condensed but horns 2 and 4 aren’t:
I suppose this is because there is a bar repeat in horn 4 at the end but none in horn 3? However, condensing doesn’t change if I move the last bar into the next frame/page by inserting a frame break. 
On the next page, by default (without manual frame break), horn 2 and 4 share similar characteristics but still aren’t condensed:
Why is that? On the page after that one, both horns are condensed properly.
Unfortunately condensing questions aren’t often diagnosable definitively without a project file.
Are you able to share this project, or even better a duplicate version that you’ve cut down to show just the relevant passage (e.g. 3 pages: the page before this, this page, and the next page)? With just the horns in, too.
Thanks for the quick response, Lillie. I’ve cut it down to a point where the absence of other parts doesn’t affect the general layout too much.
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Great, thank you.
It does seem to me to be the differing bar repeat regions for Horns 2-4: if you add a condensing change at the start of bar 12 (and tick Horns 2-4), they condense on the previous system. Likewise, if you delete the bar repeat region for Horn 4 in bar 12 and write the part out in full, Horns 2-4 condense on both systems.
(Condensing results should change at system breaks according to that system’s content, but if it’s not, it can be worth adding a condensing change at the start of the system and ticking the offending player groups.)
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Thanks much, Lillie. And it even seems to be possible to have bar 11 written out and a bar repeat at the same time where it would write out the notes in the condensed score but show the bar repeat in the part. 
