Holy Smoke! I thought I was finally getting the hang of Dorico and feeling pretty confident lately until I watched a short video explaining Frame Chains. I have not even reached the tip of the iceberg. I feel so inadequate. I don’t need a response. I just need a bigger brain.
I know you don’t need an answer, so I will ask a question: what do you want to do, that might require fiddling into frame chains? (it happens once a year in my case…)
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Good question, Marc. I guess I really don’t need to fiddle with it. I was actually trying to get a handle on what is involved with Show Globally and Show Locally and it was talking about Frame Chains and that made me curious so I looked it up and found the video. Big mistake. I’m going to let it go for now. I want to understand as much of the program as I can but that was just over my head completely.
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Dorico is clearly a deep program. There is soooo much to learn about it… What is really nice is that you can totally ignore parts of it you don’t need, until you need them. The consistency of its programming makes it rather easy to learn those new parts when you need them, once you are comfortable with the parts you do use regularly. And this forum is the perfect place to ask when there is something that doesn’t click.
Changing the frame chains is useful when you create two piano parts, a table of content with musical examples, footnotes with music, appendix with music and explanations… At least, those were the rare cases where I used them.
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Narc,
Thanks for the response. Yes, I think this is something I would rarely, if ever, use so I am going to let it go for now until such time that it becomes needed.
Thanks again.
Gary
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