Hahaha!!! So funny. It appears to me to be a British-style response. It’s too funny for me to go back and retype it. I’ll leave it for posterity. Darn auto-correct! Actually, I should be nicer, I hear the inventor died last week and his funnel is tomato…
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Also (beside the generous text tutorial by @claude_g_lapalme), in this post, if you click on the Workflow that expands the detailes, you have some visual guides for one of the methods:
I watched the video " Tip: Create your own blank manuscript paper" There was NO audio track audible.
It is true that the video goes by in a minute, BUT it took me over an hour -
because I paused the video nearly each second to catch what the cursor was clicking on.
I think I caught all the movements after watching several scenes several times. Sometimes a lot was happening
while I was still reading the wording that had just appeared.
Tomorrow, I will work my way through these instructions. I wrote down a transcript listing the time on the progress bar
for each movement and title.
I noticed that the video was done with the 3.5 version of Dorico…Are there any changes in Dorico 5.1 that would
affect these instructions?
Thank you for pointing me to the video. I saw a lot of parts of the work flow that were entirely new to me.
Shannon
Thanks! Even as a Finale migrant, I knew “poopsies” was not in any instructional videos I had seen so far.
I now have confidence in Shift -B
Shannon
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Thank you! These images really help. The video that was only one minute long took me an hour or more trying to catch all the cursor was doing. Shannon
Hello, I too am trying to set up A5 blank staves, and I have started with the details you have kindly given, but after ‘choose paper size and orientation ’ you say ’ uncheck the Key signature box’ which I cannot see. Where is it ?
Click on the time signature, open the bottom properties panel, and tick “Hide Time Signature.”
Downloading Christian’s Dorico project, opening the project, then using Dorico’s options for changing the page size and orientation worked fine for me.
Here’s how to change the page size and orientation (exact same procedure for Pro, Elements, SE)
If you would like help, please share some screenshots or projects that you have created for people here to look at.
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Hello bill19,
I am totally new to Dorico as a Finale user. I recommend asking the forum Shannon
I tried to make some progress on blank pages with staves but with no success. The instructions seem to go all over the place - write, engrave etc.
Having looked at my details, I am shocked to find that I joined in Feb 2020, and have been unable to used Dorico at all since that time.
I do not understand the whole approach to notation in this program, aand this latest idea to write my music on paper, then when it is making progress use or try to use Dorico to complete the process. At the moment I am finding the work on getting anything positive from Dorico so daunting that it would hinder any creative thoughts at all, hence the different approach.
I thought that just printing off blank manuscript paper - a simple task - would not be a difficult task, but is proving to be much more of a problem than I thought. Now I am forced to cut up A4 sheets of manuscript paper into A5 landscape sheets to use.
This looks so much like the end of the line in my dealings with Dorico that I do not know what else I can add.
Blank - A5 - Landscape with barlines.dorico (389.8 KB)
Hi @bill19, I made a short video to show you how to obtain the A5/Landscape manuscript paper that you want, starting from my Dorico file posted here.
It requires just to clicks. (I don’t know what is not clear in this workflow?):
Page formatting:
Exporting to PDF (for later print):
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Many thanks to all those who tried to help, and the results. Now that I have downloaded the page which allows for two 6 stave pages in A5, and printed them off, it has become very obvious to me that it is not possible to do this, and to use the pages printed - the staves are too small.
Sorry for the problems I caused - I will go back to he non-Dorico approach and cut up A4 Manuscript paper - after all it will be easier to transcribe to Dorico properly when I have worked out how the efforts I have made will be useful, and hopefully I will not make so much trouble there !
If you want to use this for handwriting your music, in Layout Options choose a big Rastral size. Don’t go with 7 mm, at least 7.4 mm or even better 7.9 mm.
Hello, I did adjust the rastral size to 7.9, and it may well be big enough. Thank you for your suggestion
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I’m glad you found a method that works! Just wanted to mention, though, that there’s no need to cut up paper…a word processor works great for making manuscript paper. Just hold down the underline key as long as it takes to make 5 lines, then press enter a few times for the space between staves. Easy to make the staff lines as far apart as you need by changing font size, although it’s best to figure that out right away or else you’ll have extra or short lines to deal with on each staff.