Numbering the parts is a great feature so you quickly can get an overview of the PDF-material, and see that everything is there.
The ‘problem’ now is that, if you have one score and a bunch of parts in the layout list, both the score and the first part gets the number 1.
I guess you have some thoughts about this and that this is an expected behavior, but I think it’d be so nice if every layout could get an unique number. This would make the sorting of the PDF’s much more logical.
Well, this isn’t a very big issue, but since I always have to renumber the PDF-score manually I thought it’d be worth mention anyway.
Looking forward to the version 3 of Dorico!
This has been mentioned before, and we’ll have a think about how to provide an option for whether or not the numbers are sequential across all layouts or within each type of layout (as they are now).
To me, different series for different types of layouts only messes up the sorting of the PDF-documents when there are multiple documents with the same numbering. To me it’d be much more useful if the numbering only reflected the position in the layout panel, with respect for other users having different needs.
This is how it ends up with a couple of different scores included in the PDF-export.
The whole point of numbering the PDF-files, for me, is that I easily can see if there is anything missing, since the eye quickly registers e.g. a broken series of numbers.
I have the same frustration with score and first part both 1. Perhaps have the program number the full score with a default of 0 for all layouts instead of 1 and with the first part as 1 as it is at present; consequently no duplication, at least at the beginning.
I would also like more options for numbering layouts. One suggestion I’d have is to provide a toggleable option of whether or not to include the score numbering with the part numbering.
I recently finished a project with multiple versions of conductor’s scores, and as @MatsHall noted, this means the scores get mixed in with the parts when generating pdfs.
As a side note, in Setup, it’d be nice to have the option to see in the whitespace on the right side of the layout name how everything is numbered so I don’t have to click every individual disclosure chevron.
