Hi all, I’m trying to print just the piano part, but when I go to Print mode and check just piano the bass part shows up anyway. Any thoughts?
Also, I would like to print just the Ragtime piano part, but I still have the end of the previous flow on the first page. Can I get rid of it in the piano part?
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Go to Setup Mode.
There, in the right panel, select the layout “Piano”.
In the left panel, all players that are included in this layout have their checkbox checked. Uncheck the one for the Bass player. -
In Layout Options, there is an option the have each Flow start on a new page:
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If I uncheck Bass player in left panel I get a warning saying that I’m going to delete all the bass music. I don’t want that.
And I have ‘always start flow on new page” yet I still get the end of the last flow on the first page.
See my problem? I’m missing something.
You are not following my steps 
You are removing the player from a Flow (bottom panel) instead from a Layout (right panel).
And I guess that when you selected the option to start each Flow on a new page, you had the wrong layout selected from the list on the right.
Tring to help here. Disregard if not helpful.
Dorico works in a very specific way (which I like) but can be confusing.
Look at the Setup screen:
To the left are Players - these are the persons playing the music.
To the right are Layouts - this is the things that get printed.
You may have any combination of players on on layout. When you add a player (say a bass player) Dorico will automatically create a layout for that player and also add it to the Full score layout.
So when you want to change how things are printed you work on the right panel. The problem you have is with printing, so modify things in the right panel. It is possible to create new layouts in the right panel, say only having piano and only the third flow.
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To expand a bit on @ghellquist’s post, things can be wired up in Setup mode in different ways. If you want to remove the bass player from the piano layout, you can either:
- Select the bass player in the left panel (turns bright blue) and then untick the checkbox in the piano layout in the right panel, or
- Select the piano layout in the right panel (turns bright blue) and then untick the checkbox in the bass player in the left panel
If you do either one of these, you won’t get the warning about deleting the bass music, because you’re only affecting whether the bass player’s music shows up in that layout, not whether the bass player has music.
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As for starting the flow on a new page. I highlighted the 3rd flow and it gave this, but it still doesn’t start at the top of the page.
You are viewing the Full score layout, not the Piano layout. This is controlled by the dropdown in the top toolbar.
Starting flows on a new page is a per-layout option, not a per-flow option. You select a layout in the right-hand panel in that dialog, and then you indicate whether or not you want flows to start on a new page in that layout.
If you just want this one flow to start on a new layout, you can select the first measure of the flow in Engrave mode and add a frame break. Note that this is also layout-specific.
That’s interesting. I went to Piano in the drop down, then un clicked the cello, but I still get a cello part.
You currently have the Piano player selected. Please select the Piano layout (in the right panel). I bet the Cello player is checked on the left; uncheck. it.
Alternatively, select the Cello player on the left and then uncheck the Piano layout on the right.
The selected (bright blue) element of setup (player/flow or layout) always show you which of the other two elements are connected.
Select a player - you see which layouts use that player and which flows they play in.
Select a flow - you see which players are used and which layouts will print it
Select a layout - you see which players will show and the flows that will be printed.
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Select the Piano layout, in the right-hand panel. It will turn bright blue, and you’ll see checkboxes in the left and bottom panels. I can see that you currently have the Piano player selected in the left hand panel, because it’s bright blue and the right and bottom panels have checkboxes.
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OK, now we’re getting somewhere. The cello is gone in the piano part and it starts at the top of the page. So far so good, but the systems are really small. The screenshot is of a US letter sized page. Can I make the music bigger, just in the part?
Sure. Go to Layout Options > Page Setup > Space Size, make sure that the Piano layout is selected in the right-hand panel, and either choose a smaller Rastral size or make the space size slightly larger.
The space size is the distance between two staff lines; making it bigger makes all of the staff-attached notation bigger. Rastral sizes are standard predefined space sizes – but keep in mind that as the Rastral size goes up, the space size goes down. (Kind of like gauge size for wires – thicker wires have a lower gauge number.)
Rastral 3 is a good place to start for parts.