Feature proposition: Multi-stave divisi lines

[Melyn0]

In lots of orchestral score, particularly parts and those for strings, there will be divisi written across multiple staves. This could be as little as divisi a 2 (perhaps with a solo and gli altri) or up to even divisi a 7. Particularly in the case of divisi for three voices or more, it is useful to have them written on seperate staves to aid legibility, but is still often used even for only two.

Support to create these extra staves as 'sub-instruments' of a single instrument would be very useful. It would save the use of a new instrument and using cutout staves for the empty bars. It would also allow bracketing of the divisi lines. The option to put the label for a 2
or whatever the number at the side of the bracket (like where the instrument name usually goes) would also be handy.

Example from Bernstein's Symphonic Dances.

Another example from Symphonic Dances.

A more complex example from Higdon's Concerto for Orchestra.

[its-not-nice]

This already exists as a feature request and is among the work intended for 5.0.

[Melyn0]

Thanks for the reply. Apologies for not coming across this request myself. This is promising to hear, however!

[Fourniture]

@oktophonie Will this upcoming feature work for collapsing staves with different instruments? There are some choral works that switch in and out of open choral format. One page would have tenors and basses sharing a stave, and the next has separate staves for each while altos and sopranos remain sharing a stave. (And any variation of this.)

(In addition, I hope there will be an option to automatically create staff divide arrows whenever a staff is split.)