Hi, I am working on a musical theatre score with about 20 flows. I created a layout, and my colleague worked on the string parts and I worked on the rest. I now need to transfer my work over to his file. Is there any way to copy/paste the whole project, or do I need to do it flow by flow? The layouts are identical.
Thanks as always for all your help.
Nick
Hi Nick, layout-specific work on the same flows in 2 projects might be a little tricky to merge, I’m afraid.
You can use the Library Manager to transfer per-layout settings between layouts in the two projects (for things like page margins, staff size, visibility of notation/tab/multi-bar rests, staff labels etc).
For manual system/frame breaks that you want to preserve, they’ll probably need to be copied manually, flow-by-flow.
In future, I’d personally recommend trying to compartmentalise work by flow, rather than by part/layout, as flows can be exported/imported between projects independently. Property overrides set on items in those flows should also be carried across when you export/import flows. That said, the musical content in flows will still be affected by layout-level settings, such as staff size, page margins, etc.
Nick,
if I understand you correctly, you want your music and the string music from your collaborator to merge, whilst keeping your Layouts.
In that case I would ask him for his project file and copy / paste each string player, flow by flow.
That is 20x5=100 (if it’s 5 string players) copy / paste operations. and will take quite a while. After each copy / paste operation I would actively Save your (growing) project file. Dorico can be a bit flaky when switching between open projects…
[Edit] As @DanielMuzMurray points out, you can do the whole string section in one go - per flow. So this will only add up to 20 copy / paste actions. That’s bearable and can be achieved in a short time.
Is there any reason why you can’t copy the string parts to the rest, rather than the other way around?
You could just do all the string section at once (for each flow) and there would likely be less to go wrong.
Thanks for all your helpful replies. I was hoping there might be a way to do it in one copy/paste action, rather than copy/paste each flow.