Staff label paragraph styles

Staff labels use paragraph styles to format their fonts, including their size, spacing, alignment, and other formatting options. When staff labels contain multiple separate parts, such as when the instrument name and instrument number have different vertical positions, you can format each part separately.

Dorico Pro provides the following default paragraph styles for staff labels:

• Staff Labels: The default style used for staff labels that have the instrument name and number aligned and next to each other. It is also used for the group labels on divisi staves and for instrument names aligned between multiple identical instruments or between player numbers in staff labels on condensed staves.

• Staff Labels (Inner): Used for individual staves within divisi groups, instrument numbers when instrument names are aligned between multiple identical instruments, and player numbers in staff labels on condensed staves.

• Staff Labels (Percussion Grid): Used for percussion kits in layouts using the grid presentation.

You can edit each paragraph style independently of each other in the Paragraph Styles dialog, for example, if you want outer staff labels to be left-aligned but inner staff labels to be right-aligned.