I’m a Finale refugee and struggling mightily with Dorico. The movement titles automatically appear in a cut-off font (the font is too large) and seem uneditable. I can’t figure out how to begin with a pick-up rest. Also, somehow, I turned all my pages brown, and they won’t go back to white. Any assistance would be much appreciated. Thank you very much!
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To make a pickup bar, click on your first bar and type shift-M for the meter popover. If you want a quarter rest pickup in 3/4, in the popover type
3/4, 1
And it will appear. For the titles, you want to edit your “first page” template in Engrave mode, on the right-hand panel.
Have you checked out the Dorico First Steps guide?
https://www.steinberg.help/r/dorico/doricofirststeps/5.1/en
Good luck, you’ll make it!
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Regarding the titles: You have to edit the Default flow heading in the Flow Headings section of the right-hand panel in Engrave Mode. Enlarge the frame vertically.
Regarding the color: This is intended to indicate a part (the full score is white), but does not affect printing or creating a PDF.
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Thank you!
You can change the page colors from Preferences (under the Dorico name top left) and go to colors and page colors.
I can’t figure out how to change the headings. Possible to send a screenshot? Thanks!
Could you upload your project?
Sure!
Mozart Timpani.dorico (693.0 KB)
You appear to have extra line breaks in your Project Information Flow Names.
The solution is pretty simple:
There are newline characters at the end of the flow names of the movements 4, 5 and 6 in the side bar of Project Info. Delete them.
That worked - thank you!