I am currently working on a project for a publisher that uses six different staff sizes — three for the full score, one for the piano reduction, and two for the parts (for single- and double-staff instruments). This is, in fact, a standard setup for stage works.
However, I am currently running into some limitations regarding the publisher’s specifications for font sizes.
For the full score, there is a request to change the staff size while keeping the font sizes unchanged.
For the piano reduction and the two sets of parts, there are three additional font size specifications. As a result, the paragraph and text styles for the score and parts are reaching their limits.
Dorico fortunately allows font sizes (whether paragraph or text styles) that are set to be staff-relative to be scaled afterwards.
Thanks to the filtering system, this can be done per page in the score (and thus repeatedly) or as a single global action in the other layouts.
However, the system is quite error-prone: Have I already done this for page 154 or not?
Did I apply the correct scaling for the second trumpet or the first clarinet?
In large projects, this can easily become a headache.
Would it be possible to have, for each paragraph and text style (provided it is set to be staff-relative), a reliable set of configuration fields along the lines of:
If staff size = x spaces → scale by y%
and so on for perhaps 5–8 additional staff sizes?
Or does such a feature already exist and I simply haven’t found it yet?
Or would that, unfortunately, be impossible?
I believe that for anyone working on truly large-scale projects, such a feature would be an absolute blessing.
