Feature request: user defined tokens

Dorico
1

It would be great to have the possibility of gnerating user defined tokens. This would be an workflow improvement.

greatings
Helmut

2

Can you elaborate? examples? I am curious because I have thought of that myself.

3

This has been requested before. At the moment, I think Dorico does give you a large number of project and flow tokens to play with, and it’s important to realize that just because a token is called Editor or Work Number doesn’t mean that you need to use it for that specific purpose – you can store any kind of data you want in that field.

4

I second to what @asherber said. In addition, for truly infinite tokens:

  1. Create a new flow;
  2. Cmd+I or Ctrl+I and set the new flow’s information that you want to retain;
  3. For all flow-specific tokens (i.e., {@flowtitle@}), insert the specific flow number from which you want to retrieve the information, i.e., {@flow2title@} if the information is set in Flow 2;
  4. Bonus: In Setup mode, select all part layouts and deselect your new flow so it is not included in the prints.

See also the second bullet point in the Notes box here:

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You can specify the flow number to which you want flow tokens to refer, such as {@flow2title@}. This always shows the specified flow, regardless of the token’s position.

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