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Barlines on individual staves Barlines across instrumental groups

Barlines automatically extend across staff groups that are joined by a bracket or brace. 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 Elements automatically brackets staves according to the ensemble type set for each

layout.

Barlines across grand staff instruments

Dorico Elements 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.