The Flow concept is fantastic for suites, works with ,multiple movements, etc.; but I write a lot of single movement stand-alone tone poems.
At the top of the screen I always see “Flow in [Title]” and when I want to export audio, I get a folder called “Flows in [Title],” inside that there is “01 - Flow 1,” and–finally–inside that I find the actual audio.
Again, flows are terrific, but isn’t there way to tell Dorico, “This particular piece is just one thing without flows?”
It’s not a major problem–just a workflow and filename issue.
More flexibility for where audio files and other exports get saved would be a good thing, but an option to configure Dorico into some kind of “single-flow mode” is unnecessary, in my opinion.
There’s another thread requesting an option to number Flows from zero, instead of one. So that would be two additional options to put somewhere.
I think there’s a real danger of “option fatigue” when confronted by hundreds of configurable variations about how the program operates. And then you can’t understand why Dorico isn’t working as you now want it, because you’ve forgotten that the hundreds of options are configured in a certain way…
Agree, these are fair points but they’re really minor and subject to taste. At some point just accept how it works even though it’s not to your preference to the most minuscule degree.
FWIW to my old software engineering eye this app has gone to extraordinary degrees to be accommodating, I think it’s at a point where we all need to stop bothering with little this’s and that’s and just focus on new features.
@DanMcL , Everyone is taking this as a complaint or feature request. That’s fine, but I was asking if there were already some type of command or configuration option. It’s a minor invonvenience but not a big deal.
Yes, I have exactly the same concern/question. I do NOT want to see anything about “flows” appearing in a project title, and certainly not in an audio export file name. Is there a way to prevent any reference to flows?
Saving your default Layout Options to Never show Flow Headings should be sufficient for the printed page. The default page template shows the Flow title as a header, but giving the Flow and Project the same name will fix that.
Alternatively, you can save a document template with a revised page template, and use that for all new documents.
Thanks for your help Ben. I had to resave my project to a desired new project name, and then also edited the residual flow name to be " ", which at least now results in a new project name, together with a blank flow (in setup). In File Audio export, I first DE selected all flow references, but that meant that nothing was audio exported. So, best result was to tick select all flows - having first renamed any residual flow as " " (blank), and finally produced an audio file with only my desired project file name! What a lot of trouble to go to, just to get rid of this unwanted flow functionality!!!
