Hide or delete short names of instruments etc.

Dorico
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  1. Use the Staves and Systems page of Layout Options.

  2. Select the notes and do Edit > Reset Appearance to undo their MusicXML-obtained properties.

  3. You can use the various formatting commands in Engrave mode to insert system breaks etc. where you think they should go.

  4. You can’t manually adjust the distance between staves and systems yet, but it’s in progress at the moment and will be possible in the first post-release update. In the meantime, the options on the Vertical Spacing page of Layout Options are what you’ve got.

  5. This is indeed a bug.

  6. If you have problems with MIDI files, perhaps you could zip them up and attach them here so we can look into it.