I’m working on creating small example exercises to be added to an educational book, using individual flows for each student exercise. Therefore I have hundreds of individual flows to create. Every time I create a new one (or even duplicate a previous one how I like it), Dorico always re-adds the tokens {@projecttitle@} and {@page@} and invariably I have to delete them manually. Since Dorico has so many preferences I thought surely there must be a setting somewhere to never have titles or page numbers, but even in page layout with page numbers set to always hidden, and all flow headings disabled, it always still auto-creates these tokens for a new flow:
In Engrave mode I delete the text frames one at a time, and then manually shift the music frame up so it lines up with all the other exercises I’ve been creating (when I bring them into InDesign for page layout). My goal for each:
Are you editing the individual page, or the page template? If you remove those tokens or frames from the template, that should take care of the whole project.
Oh wow – I’m a little embarrassed to admit in spite of using Dorico for years (more focused on composition and playback than engraving), I had no idea there are page templates in the engrave mode area. I just removed the tokens from there and tested new flows and that’s exactly what I wanted. Thanks!
If you look in the Pages section in Engrave, in the upper right, you’ll probably see that all of your other pages have a red triangle. This indicates a page override, meaning that you edited the page separately from the template. Pages with an override will not respond to changes in the underlying template.
Since your existing pages all look the way you want, I guess you could just leave these alone. But if the only edits you’ve made were to delete the tokens and move the music frame, you could right click and choose Remove All Page Overrides, which will re-attach those pages to the (now corrected) template. If you’ve made other frame edits, though, you’d lose those as well.
Good to know. Since that’s the only change I made to any flows, I went ahead and reset overrides (just for consistency’s sake) and everything looks great. A lot of handy stuff in that right panel, an unexplored area of the program for me. Thanks for pointing me in this direction!
