The brackets break when you try to adjust them

Comrades, I have encountered the following problem, please help me solve it.
issue.dorico (2,0 МБ)

In the Engraving mode, I needed to adjust the bracketing in the brass section. Everything seemed to be fine in the beginning, but on the last page of the score I ran into some trouble.
First, pay attention to this sub-bracket:


I had to “pull” it to the next stave. But as soon as I tried to do this, the main bracket of the section immediately broke:

Okay, I thought, I’ll try to return the main bracket of the section to its original position. But as soon as I did that, the sub-bracket at the top of the score, in the clarinets, immediately broke:

Try to do it yourself and you will understand everything.

In general, complete confusion and confusion. It is very very difficult to manually adjust all this.
The dev team, when will you finally solve this problem?

Is it more or less what you’re looking for?
issue.dorico (2,0 Mo)

I removed the condensation to see more clearly, displayed all the systems, deleted the bracket changes, selected ‘Orchestral’ in Layout Options > Brackets and Braces (you had something else),

then restored the condensation and your staff visibility settings.

As far as I have experienced this, bracket changes must be used with great care, ideally only at the very beginning, with condensation turned off and all staves visible.

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Yes, but now the 2 brass sections are joined by one common bracket. I need to have one bracket for each section.
In addition, there are now basses (at the bottom of the score) not joined by a sub-bracket.


I also need the saxophones to form a separate section.

How can this be solved?

issue.dorico (2,0 Mo)

Is that better?

Yes! But how did you do it?

I kept the “Orchestral” default bracketing, then in Engrave Mode, at bar 1, I made a bracket change according to your wishes, with condensation turned off. Don’t pay attention to the staff visibility settings, it was apparently not neccesary, since all your players play from the very begining.
Also, Shift+F4 is my custom keycommand for Condensing on/off toogle.

Here is a video screenshot of the process, hope it is readable!

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Thank you so much for your help!

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It’s possible that the sub-bracket on the single staff in your first picture is caused by the Layout Options for whether sub-brackets are shown on single staves. There are a few options for different circumstances.