Sounds to me like you’ve got your knickers in a twist with the paragraph styles you’re using, or possibly with which paragraph styles are inheriting settings from other paragraph styles. It won’t be possible for us to offer you any specific help unless you can provide the project in which you’re having these problems.
yeesh!
ok, so is there any off-the-cuff advice I might get for things to start looking at?
SHOULD my text have a “parent” style? or not?
I’ve been trying my best with this document, and nothing I do will now let any of the parts’ title/dedication/layout names change appearance at all.
I’d set the title to be larger, Bold type.
The dedication to be smaller and italic.
And the layout name (instrument name that appears at the top left of the 1st page of each part) as having a box around it.
I’ve tried setting them all to “none” for the parent style, and it makes no difference. nothing I do seems to alter the text font in any way.
The only paragraph styles I’m trying to alter are “dedication”, “title”, and “layout name”.
As far as I know, none of these styles appear anywhere else in the score.
EDIT:
Ignore the idiot on the forum!!!
I finally figured out my stupid and embarrassing error.
I was expecting the tokens I inserted to automatically inherit the font styles I established in “Paragraph Styles”.
Stupid me didn’t realize I actually had to APPLY the paragraph styles to the token texts.
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to add to the mystery of this file, the violin solo (it’s a concerto for violin and string orchestra) seems to have default different page margins than the other instrument parts!
There are no changes to the pages in that part (no little red triangle on the 1st page).
I wouldn’t even know where to start looking to set a different set of margins for one single part!
It’s pretty easy to set different margins for one part: when you open the Layout Options dialog, by default you’ll be editing the settings only for the layout that you were looking at when you opened the dialog. The list on the right-hand side of the dialog allows you to choose which layouts you are editing the options for. If you had just the solo violin part selected, then any changes you made in the Layout Options dialog would apply only to that layout.
If you now want to make changes to all the part layouts so that they are somewhat normalised, click the “select all parts” button (the one that looks like a music stand) in the right-hand list in the Layout Options dialog. Now any changes you make in the dialog will be applied to all the selected layouts.
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