'Condensing' scores in Sibelius

I've come across the question from others, and had to tackle it myself: how do you work with scores in Sibelius where you want to 'condense' two or more parts onto one stave for the conductor, but have individual dynamic parts for each player? This is one approach that I've found helpful. Let me know if more Sibelius tutorial videos would be useful!
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[@ashmistry9336]

Excellent stuff! Pro new music editor here - this is _exactly_ how we do it when we want to keep to one sibelius file for both the score and parts with large ensemble/orchestral music: individual new staves for reduced wind and brass, and "show in parts" applied to the individual parts where applicable. The only downside to this is that at system breaks, you will often see a change of the condensing. So that means that ties before the note sometimes need to be entered (a feature made easy in Sib 2020 and newer, I believe), along with manually drawn slurs and hairpins, configured in the inspector to look as they would when going over a system, i.e. with two open ended sides instead of

[@bentriggmusic]

It's worth saying that this process has largely been made redundant with one of the recent releases of Sibelius - in fact, it was in 2023.5, nearly two years ago as of writing this comment. See this article from Scoring Notes: www.scoringnotes.com/reviews/sibelius-2023-5/

[@antonioserranoofficial]

Very useful. Thanks! May I ask you how can you edit the instruments names so they show Fl. 1-2 like in the video? Thanks

[@0live0wire0]

How do you show your inspector always to the left like that?

[@bentriggmusic]

(On a Mac) Cmd+Alt+I is the keyboard shortcut for the Inspector. I don’t know how else you access it but I imagine there’s a button in the toolbar somewhere

[@addabeats]

Great tutorial! How did you rename the condensed parts in the format that is on this video? When I try it, the spacing between numbers 1 and 2 are just too wide.

[@BenDavidTriggSongs]

Great question! In the Text Styles editor, set the line spacing to 0.5. You then have to type the Instrument Name in a strange way (1 \Flute \2 including the extra spaces after 'Flute'; \ is a new line in Sibelius syntax, although if you're just typing directly onto the score you just hit return for a new line)

[@yixuantjanmusic]

Thanks so much! This condensing technique works on MuseScore too! Haven't tried dynamic parts on MS yet, but it's quite a major breakthrough to be able to get condensed scores in MS! I'll be able to produce condensed scores from Sib, Dorico, and MS now:)