I have accidentally added one too many blank pages at the beginning of my score, and now after having finished the title page and preface, I want to delete it. Only I can’t. The instructions I find on the forum and manual don’t work. If I righ-click on the page in the right-hand panel, I don’t find the option “Remove Master Page Change(s)” that people talk about. If I choose “Remove page Template change(s)”, the page does disappear, but the first page of the score is then doubled. Makes no sense.
Honestly, sometimes I don’t understand why certain things have to be that complicated. Why is there not simply the option “delete page”? That seems like such a basic feature.
What can I do?
I’m stuck now, because I already found out after inserting pages for title page and preface that ALL my vertical adjustments got deleted by Dorico simply because I added some blank pages in the front (another thing that doesn’t make sense to me), and that’s the last thing I have to do now to finish the score. I can’t do it before I have managed to delete that empty page, otherwise I’m sure all my vertical adjustments will disappear again. Can someone please explain me how to get rid of that page?
But it still doesn’t do anything if I choose this. And if I remove all page overrides, all my title page and preface which I have been working for days on disappear. Why is there not the option to just remove it for one page??? Why so complicated? Why can’t I simply delete an empty page? Nothing of this makes any sense. I’m getting frustrated.
This is what happens if I remove page template changes for that page. The first page of music is simply doubled. Now anybody tell me what is the sense of this???
Without seeing the file it’s hard to say. But you probably added a blank page. You seem to have a number of template changes AND page overrides which will really complicate things.
Oh well. I found out a workaround: Moving that particular page to the very end of the project and then remove page template changes from it. Not what I would call excessively intuitive, but whatever .
Of course I have some page overrides on the first pages, since I added empty pages to create a title page, preface, performance notes. For the text pages of the preface, I opted for page override since I don’t see why I should create a template for this.
That suggests that you have added frames that are not in the same chain as those on the page template/other pages.
I suspect that you’re making too many unnecessary manual adjustments, and this is coming back to bite you.
There’s nothing wrong with manual changes per se, but for most use cases they can be avoided, so that Dorico can just lay it all out, unconstrained by overrides.
Maybe you have set Use ‘First’ Page Template to Any Flow which starts st top of page in Layout Options > Page Setup > Flows. Set it to First Flow only.
The whole page template set stuff makes a lot of sense with regard to reusability, you can apply the same page layout with different information (provided by the project and flow token) to all parts and even to multiple pages of the same layout without breaking the page and frame chain.
Check the frame chain assigned to the frames on the Default and First page templates: if the frame chain doesn’t match between the 2 templates, Dorico can’t use them automatically; it can only use the Default page template, except where you explicitly assign the First page template to pages.
But as you’ve discovered, if the frame chain isn’t the same between First and Default page templates, then the music won’t flow across them, but instead restarts.
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