This got buried in an earlier thread which contained a number of different questions, and never really addressed. But I’m interested.
If I use the divisi feature to add a soloist above an existing staff, here’s expected behaviour:
(1) I create divisi in the existing staff and add a soloist.
(2) The empty soloist staff appears above the existing staff.
(3) Now I can input the soloist’s music into the new empty staff.
And here’s Dorico’s actual behaviour, at least as far as I can tell:
(1) I create divisi in the existing staff and add a soloist.
(2) The existing staff is changed into a soloist staff at the point of divisi, inheriting its existing music.
(3) A new staff appears below, empty.
(4) I must move all the music from the existing staff to the new staff below for the duration of the divisi.
(5) Now I can input soloist’s music into the vacated bars on the existing staff.
Having done this sequence, everything looks fine in the score, but there is a minor downside. Because the top staff is now sometimes a section and sometimes a soloist, selecting all the music in this staff selects a mixture of soloist’s and section’s music.
I’m curious to know whether this is a feature (or at least intended behaviour) or a bug – or whether I’m doing something wrong? Thanks in advance.
