I am using Dorico Pro 6.1. I have successfully managed to create multiple flows, each containing a Title, Composer, and other information in the Flow Heading. What I cannot seem to do is to define a Flow Footer where I can add a copyright and other metadata associated with the specific flow, and not with the entire piece. My use case is notating multiple traditional and contemporary fiddle tunes and songs. I have googled for this feature a lot, and finally got a response that simply stated that Dorico Pro 6 does not support Flow Footers. .
So, here are my questions for the moment:
Is this a feature that might be added soon?
In the mean time, is there a work-around for this in Dorico 6.1.10?
It’s a feature I think I’ve asked/requested in the past. In the meanwhile, enter as text under the last system in a flow, positioning it in Engrave mode. You could setup a paragraph style specifically for this.
You can use the “Cmd+I” on Mac go to the Flow and insert the copyright you want to. Before you have to manager the Engrave Mode and change for a {@flowcopyrigth@} in the Master Page.
You can perfectly use page templates for that. Create a “Default with footers” page template and use page template changes so that they are applied to the flow that needs it. Certainly not a workaround, even if I know it’s not the workflow you were expecting (like an option in Notation options — the only options that are Flow-dependent)
But what if you want a footer immediately below your flow and you have more than one flow on each page? A template with a text frame wouldn’t really work.
That’s exactly what I want! Bookend headers and footers in a single flow, without worrying about how long the flows are, or whether they chain to the next page. I guess for the time being, I’m SOL.
A pity you can only set a Flow header change per Page, not per flow (as I had expected)
And a problem with the workaround I suggested earlier, is that the copyright notice for the previous song sits on the next page when a flow starts on the next page
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