Table of Contents
Page formatting
The formatting of pages in Dorico Pro is determined by a number of factors, including the layout’s staff size, page margins, the master page applied to them, any casting off values applied to them, system and frame breaks, and frame padding.
Condensing
Condensing is the process of showing the music for multiple players on fewer staves than normal, usually by allowing multiple instruments of the same type to share a staff, such as Flutes 1-2 or Horns 1-4. In Dorico Pro, this is an automatic process that allows you to show condensed staves in some layouts, such as full score layouts, and uncondensed staves in others, such as the part layouts.
Player labels
Player labels identify the players to which notes on condensed staves belong. They are usually used to indicate a change in how music is condensed, such as going from having different parts to playing in unison or from all players having separate stems to some players sharing a stem.
Editing player label text
You can override the text shown in player labels individually, for example, if you want to describe condensing on a staff in a different format than is shown by default.

Editing player label text

You can override the text shown in player labels individually, for example, if you want to describe condensing on a staff in a different format than is shown by default.

Prerequisite

Graphic Editing is selected in the Engrave toolbox.

Procedure

In Engrave mode, select the player labels whose text you want to edit.
In the Properties panel, activate Custom text in the Player Labels group.
Enter the text you want to appear in the player labels into the value field.
Press Return.

Result

The selected player labels are changed to show the text you entered.

Deactivating Custom text returns the corresponding player labels to their default text.

Note

Deactivating properties permanently deletes any custom text entered.
You can change the default appearance and content of player labels on the Condensing page in Engrave > Engraving Options. For example, you can choose whether or not to include “a3” in player labels for unison passages, such as 1.2.3 a3.