I made a mess when I imported a song that had the settings I wanted in my format for a new song. I deleted all the notation and created a new piece. It’s worked until printed a pdf. My first instinct is to try once again to create a format. This is a challenge because I don’t do it that often. Inputting notation is almost as fast as typing. So rewriting it might work. That puts me back to square one with the formatting issues.
Do I fix what I have or rewrite? I decided to expose myself. Here is the messy original.
Hi,
I took the time and looked at your project. Please have a look into how voices work, especially the use of shift-V versus V.
Shift-V is only necessary once (to create a new voice). Your simple piano part had all in all 1 up- and 11 down-stem voices. You would see that, if you turn voice colours on. Anyway, I put them all back into one up- and one down-stem voice. Still the Full score layout looked messy, I don’t know why, even a Reset Layout did not help.
But once I created a new Full score Layout, things sorted themselves. Have a look at “Full score new”.
I took the freedom to reduce Note Spacing to get everything onto 4 pages. Without Easter There’d Be No Christmas_R5-new layout.dorico (2.3 MB)
ps. You may safely in Setup Mode delete the old "Full score” layout.
You are a very good person! The biggest problem I have (among many) is time. I know you spent considerable time doing this. Thanks for the suggestions on voices. I will study the “shift-v and v” difference. I have enjoyed the freedom of being able to hit “shift-v” to layer the things my fingers are doing on the piano.
This looks so beautiful! I can’t wait to spend more time with it today. For now, my house is quiet, and I want it to stay that way for a few hours. I’m anxious to study your suggestions.
Have a great day! You’ve made mine much better than I’d even hoped.
Once you have created an additional voice with Shift-V have a close look at the cursor, when you input new voices (“layers”). There are tiny numbers next to a small up-stem or down-stem icon. You can toggle between the existing voices by just hitting V, that is without the Shift in front. If you see numbers like 7 or something it should make you suspicious. In a light piano setting you will probably only need 1 up-stem and 1 down-stem voice..
Have a look, this video is old, but gold: https://youtu.be/IKBU7z0gAVo?is=1i1Fc4qFkg8olELe
Thank, k_b. You’re right on this video. There is so much to learn. I’m grateful to people like you who will point me in a direction. I’m also grateful for this forum, as it lets me refer back to solutions and tips. I know where to find them. Connie