Zero Line and Instrument name

Hello, I have a question about the zero line:

I’m preparing a project for a string quartet and since I’m going to use some aleatory notation, I decided to assign to every musician the zero line instrument that Daniel Spreadbury provided in this post.

So, I renamed every zero line instrument according to the musician but I’m having this issue:

when I rename the zero line instruments assigned to Viola e anche Cello with the same name, I obtain this result.

As you can see, this does not happen for Vln. 1 and Vln. 2. What Am I missing?

You might find it better in this case to set the player names, and then (on the Staves and Systems page of Layout Options) tell Dorico to use player names instead of instrument names for staff labels for those players.

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