Sorry to ask such a basic question, but I just couldn’t find it in the manual, Youtube channel, nor in the forum. I want to add a dedication line beneath the title in the title page. Inputting them in the Project Info dialog doesn’t help. I understand that I need to add a text frame for it. So, in Engrave mode, I click on the First Page template. I right click on one of the existing boxes (the one on the top left under the title, which is blank) and insert project info: dedication. It appears in the form of a token. But when I click “apply” and close, it doesn’t appear in the score! I tried moving the composer box and that blank one next to it slightly down and inserting a new frame between them with a token in it; but that didn’t help either. Please help!
I assume you have already set up the dedication in the Project Info window? You might want to save your master page as a new default, which is how I’ve done this so I can deploy it as a house style on other pieces. This setup is working for me:
Yes, I have already set up the dedication in the Project Info window. How do I save the “master page” as a new default? What is a “master page”? This is the “first page template” I am trying to modify.
The main reason you’re not seeing an effect on your score is probably that you’re editing the Left side of the First page template pair of pages, whereas the first page of music (usually being page 1, which is an odd number) typically uses the Right page. Make sure you copy left-to-right for any changes you make to the left page to carry over to the right page.
More info and tips:
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You can add more text to existing text frames, you don’t necessarily need to input a whole new text frame. Just resize the existing text frame if needed, and insert line breaks as you would in any text editor.
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For an example with more pictures of editing a page template, see the First Steps guide.
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Dedications typically go above the title, centered horizontally, and using an italic font. You can create a paragraph style for dedications with those settings, then select that paragraph style for selected text using the text editor options.
(“Page templates” used to be called “master pages” – but they’re the same thing)
Then check for page overrides in Engrave mode, outside of the page template editor.
In addition to Lillie’s reply, if you google “dorico master page template” you will get four videos, if you find these useful. The 101 version is the first:
You can remove it (this was the next page directly after the previous one I linked you to, about page format changes)
Are you on an earlier version of Dorico? Mine doesn’t have a Master Page window as shown in Anthony’s video. His looks like this:
Mine (Pro 5.1.60 looks like this:
OK, I right-clicked and removed it. Now it doesn’t have a red corner. But that dedication line is still not there. This is probably not a simple task. Let me read the material you sent me some more, and see if I can find it… Thanks @Lillie_Harris !
Could it be that I’m having this trouble because I’m trying to modify one of Dorico’s default templates (first page template). Perhaps I have to create new template from scratch in order to get this to work?
Nope that won’t be it – if you’re really stuck, share your project for someone to take a look.
When you open Project Info, are you sure that you entered your dedication in the dedication field while Project is selected on the left? If a flow is selected (underneath Project) and you enter a dedication there, it will only appear in your document if you set the token to {@FlowDedication@}.
OK. It was my mistake. I had entered the dedication line into the subtitle field! When I corrected that, the dedication appeared. Thank you @phase_Shift, @Lillie_Harris and @Vaughan_Schlepp !