Okay, I’ve solved the issue with the slurs and hairpins, but what about the lyrics? The word «problema» is a single word and needs hyphens to separate the syllables; if it gets split across two lines, the hyphens disappear.
For these cases I input a unicode hyphen.
On Mac I temporarily switch to unicode keyboard, then press/hold Alt and type 002D.
On Windows it might be holding down the Alt key and typing 045 or 45.
So you have to use Shift + X.
So you agree with me that splitting the staff by adding a “Solo” is poorly implemented? It would simply suffice to set the main staff for the others as a continuation of the previous staff, and all the problems would be solved.
No Shift-X necessary.
You do this whilst being in lyric input.
Additional staves are added in Dorico underneath existing ones. If one knows this principle, then one can put the tutti line into the right staff right from the beginning of a flow.
Given that vocalists normally sing from a vocal (or piano/vocal) score, using the divisi for vocalists seems the wrong choice as opposed to using a separate staff for the soloist.
The divisi options seems much more appropriate for instrumental parts where a section shares parts. If one wants to split a soloist from the ensemble in this case, then the case for a different arrangement within the divisi would make more sense.
That’s not true: in many choral scores (such as the Barber 's «Agnus Dei» I posted earlier), the staff often splits to accommodate a solo line.
Since you recommended arranging the staves differently within the *divisi* sections, how should one go about it?
@Janus gave the solutions as soon as you presented the Barber example.
So, am I supposed to hide the top staff (which will eventually be assigned to the Soloist) in linear view mode across all the systems where it isn’t needed?
I still think it would be better if the Dorico developers realized that adding a staff below to take over from the main one, effectively turning the main staff into an auxiliary one, is the wrong approach, and if they fixed this issue.
There is a layout option to accommodate this very common requirement…
Layout options>Vertical Spacing>Staff visibility,
It’s not an “added” staff; it’s a completely separate Player, manually hidden.
Choral Solo Staff Demo.dorico (1.4 MB)
Dorico will deal with this automatically, see Janus’s answer.