OK, I think I got it. A very humbling experience IMHO. Thank you all for your patience with me!
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Something I worked on a while back.
I kept the title pages separate from the score and swapped them to the front in a PDF program to prevent any formatting changes from affecting the subsequent music.
titlePagePattern.dorico (532.4 KB)
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I wonāt lie to you. As much as I love Dorico, I really think this part of the program would really benefit from more helpful tools ā selecting overlapping frames can be tedious, copying frames could help, and turning an overridden page into a template instead of having to redo it properly would certainly feel more easy from the users point of view!
[Edit] Another flaw (and the Team knows about it) is the inability to have the text flow between text frames as it does with music frames (the music chains allow that, and as of yet, there are not text chains, as you can have in Publisher or InDesign).
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Certainly the ability to assign the various frames a z-index to bring some frames permanently to the front would be a helpful start without expecting Dorico to mimic a fully fledged graphic art program.
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Here I am a year later struggling with some of the same issues that dascott had, and Iāve been a Dorico user since 1.4 !!!
I still donāt understand why the default first page shows 2 pages. A first page is a page, not two pages! I also donāt understand how (if there is indeed a way) to copy text frames (that I have enlarged to fit the text) to other projects so that I donāt have to enlarge each one over and over again, which takes forever. (My copyright text frame almost always has two long lines, to show the original copyright of a piece I have arranged plus my own copyright of the arrangement.)
The first page of a layout can be a left page or a right page, and you may want it to look different depending on which it is.
It sounds like you want to export your modified page templates into a page template set, which you can then import into other projects.
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Thank you. One last question if youāre willing. How do I make it so that a two-page sheet music āspreadā has page one on the left and page two on the right? I used to know how but have forgotten, and for me itās not at all intuitive.
Layout Options > Page Setup > Page Numbers, set to 2.
By convention, page 1 is always a RH page, so if you want two pages that are LH and RH, the first page has to be page 2.
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Insert a blank page before page 1 and then renumbering pages on the left-hand, new page 1. Donāt print the blank page.
I get the reasoning behind āpage one is always a right pageā, but I wish that convention would break when weāre printing 2up. Since Dorico allows for 2up printing directly, and many (probably most) of my parts end up as two-page spreads, that would be nice. (I know I can work around it, and do so in various different ways, but itās something Iād appreciate if it was there.)
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