Leo, as I read back what I wrote, I realized I didn’t explain it very well. Let me try to write more clearly.
In all my writing—brass quintets, concert band, orchestra—I often have staves for parts that will be printed, but that I don’t want to appear in the final printed score. However, they have to be created in some score in order that the parts will be generated.
One example: In a band piece, the Master/Large score (not to be confused with the Dorico term Master Page) will contain 3 staves for Clarinets 2 and 3; one for each individual part, which will be printed as parts but won’t appear in the Final score, and a third staff for the two parts combined, which will appear in the Large score but will never be printed as a part.
Or my current issue: in my brass quintet, the trumpet parts that will be created in the Large score will include both Bb and C versions, although only the C Trumpet staves will appear in the Final score. However, in order to generate the Bb parts, they have to actually be in a score file, just as the combined clarinet staff (above) must actually be in a score file.
In Sibelius, I would just hide the staves in the Large score that I didn’t want to appear in the Final version. However, since I’m unaware of any such possibility in Dorico, I just created two different versions of the score. The Large score contains all four trumpet parts (2 in Bb, 2 in C), solely for the purpose of creating the Bb parts. The other Final score will be the one that is printed/published, containing only the two C parts.
My problem is that in the Large score, the one containing the two extra Bb parts, I can’t get the page numbers to appear as they do in the Final score. It doesn’t matter from a practical point of view, as that score will never be printed. However, I need to understand why it isn’t working because it’s likely to come up again.
I thought I could have both scores (the Large and Final versions) work off the same Master Page for scores. That’s where the problem comes in; the page numbers—{@page@}— show up perfectly in the Final Score but not in the Larger score, both of which are theoretically attached to the same Master Page
I’ve double checked—heck, I’ve quadruply checked!—the nomenclature of the Page # token. It is definitely written as {@page@} in both scores.
So that explains why I’m pretty sure I have something screwed up in which Master Page my Large score is using, and that’s why I’m asking where I can find a full explanation of how the Pages and Master Pages work together.
Marc, thanks for your quick tutorial—I’ll go back and look at it again. I do of course realize that all this has to happen in Engrave Mode. I think maybe the part I hadn’t understood was how to make sure a given Master page is applied to a given Page. I hope that will clear the whole thing up for me.
Either way, thanks to all for taking the time to write. This forum is invaluable, both because the Dorico team is always so quick to reply (do you guys EVER sleep?!) and because the other users are so generous with your time and experience.
(PS Does anyone know what happened to the Thank You button in the forum?)
