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Barlines across staff groups

In order to make it easier to nd a particular instrument within a score, barlines can extend

across instrumental and staff groups.

Barlines across default staff groups

When a barline only appears on individual staves, it is much harder to locate individual lines at a

glance. However, when barlines continue across instrumental groups in the score, instrument

families are shown as blocks, which makes

nding an instrument much easier.

Barlines on individual staves Barlines across instrumental groups

Barlines extend across staff groups automatically when they are joined by a bracket. Which

staves are included in a bracket depends on the instrumentation and context, but usually staves

for instruments from the same family, such as woodwind or strings, are bracketed together.

Dorico SE automatically brackets staves according to the ensemble type set for each layout.

Barlines across grand staff instruments

Dorico SE automatically joins barlines across grand staff instrument staves as they are braced.

Because staves cannot be bracketed and braced simultaneously, grand staff instruments are

excluded from brackets and therefore are not joined with barlines to any other staves.

Custom barline groups

You can create custom barline joins and bracket groups by manually arranging your players into

groups. If one or more players included in your group were previously in another group, any

remaining instruments in their previous group remain grouped.

You can put a single player in its own player group so they appear separately, for example, to

separate the soloist from the remainder of the ensemble in a concerto.