I want to change the size of the title font. When I doubleclick on the title, a menu opens, in which I can change the font size, but it doesn´t have a function. After changing the font size the size is still the same as before. Why? It´s quite confusing.
Have you checked Paragraph Styles?
Yes, that works. But why is there an edit menu, when I doubleclick the title, and all changes in the menu doesn´t have an effect?
Are you actually selecting the text or just double-clicking the text box?
Ah, I didn´t select the text. But if I doubleclick the text, the text disappears and there is the token. So, I can´t select the text, but I have to select the token. Thats kind of weird, but it works . So thanks for your help.
The token generates the text. Whatever formatting you perform on the token will be reflected in the text it generates.
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I click on the page templates, but what comes up is too small to see.
No token appears
Zoom in
You need to double-click to open the template (or click on the little pencil in the icons below). Then you’ll see the tokens entered into the template.
Thank you so much. I’ll try it as soon as I get back home!!
Ivan Burnett
I double clicked on the title and then the pencil. It gave me a screen to change the name I had put in but did not show how to enlarge my title. So, I clicked on the plus sign next to the pencil and all that did, also, was a chance to out in the name of the piece, but not to enlarge it. So, I held down the control key, then the shift key, then the alternate key and after each one tried the plus sign, the arrow up, the arrow to the right. Still nothing happened
Let’s go back a step: the big project title at the top of page 1 comes from the First page template. Page templates are how Dorico puts stuff on pages: text, music, and graphics.
These default page templates are set up to use tokens (to mirror information that you add in the Project Info dialog, so you don’t need to write your title manually on every page), and the formatting of that text uses paragraph styles (eg that’s why the composer is right-aligned but the lyricist is left-aligned).
By default, the title on the First page template uses the aptly-named “Title” paragraph style.
Therefore, to make your title larger:
- Go to Library > Paragraph Styles
- In that dialog, select the Title style
- Change the font size using the options on the right
In the cases where you want or need to change the size of a bit of text in one text frame only, without editing its paragraph style, make sure that you first select the text in the text frame (like you would in a word processor) – that’s how you tell Dorico which text you want to resize, or make italics, etc.
This video might be worth watching through to pick up some tips:
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