i have an orchestral score and would like to add the same several pages of text to each part without having to do it by hand to each. is there a way to do this?
Not semi-automatically, no. But (you probably know) you can add extra page templates to a page template set, and assign those to the first few pages of every part. Unfortunately, apart from having an automatic First and subsequent Default pages, Dorico had no mechanism to design other ‘recipes’ for successive page templates.