How to get flow duration on a first page without music

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Hello,
In my piece I would like to have in my first page without music the duration of the piece.
Can you help me

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As far as I know, you can write the duration of each flow.

Token Description
{@flowDuration@} Duration of the current flow in minutes and seconds
{@flownDuration@} Duration of flow n in minutes and seconds

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I do that on my first page but the problem is that I see always {@flowDuration@} or
{@flownDuration@} but not time

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It has to be in a text frame I think.

Jesper

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You cannot use tokens in shift-x text. As @jesele says, you need to put the token somewhere in a text frame (preferably by editing a master page layout).

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Ok I do that but it doesn t work without music Frame see my picture

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{@flowDuration@}

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If you right-click in the text frame you get a list of tokes to insert.

Jesper

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I try it but it doesn t work
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Double-click first so that you get the cursorl then right-click.

Jesper

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I understand why it doesn’t work because it’s not attached to the music frame

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If you double-click inside the text-frame?

Jesper

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And as @Janus said, you wrote flowduration, should be flowDuration

Jesper

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In fact I am wrong - they are not case sensitive! See https://steinberg.help/dorico/v1/extra/dorico-tokens.pdf
It is strange though that the default tokens in the master layout pages are shown as eg. {@projectTitle@}!

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@Laurent_Colombo
OK I’ve done some experiments and I agree with you. The behaviour of the {@flowduration@} token is inconsistent.

However, the token {@flow1duration@} should work on your title page (note the 1)

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Thanks it’s now good
Thank you very much for quick answer

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Hi,
Can you say me
How to get the entire duration of a Sonate with 3 mvt

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Flow tokens on pages with no music frames must include a specification of the flow number, as explained here on the Tokens page in the latest version of the manual.

@Laurent_Colombo I realise you posted this question in two threads - try to be careful when doing that, as it can make it harder to anyone helping you to know what you’ve already been told, sometimes duplicating everybody’s efforts.

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AfaIk:

  1. select the last note (or rest) of the sonata

  2. press P

  3. press the space-bar immediately

  4. Top Right read the entire duration of the sonata. (if you see the bar number click on it, you’ll see the duration)