How do I reposition the page title that appears at the top of pages 2, 3, 4, etc. of my score? It seems to be the one thing I can’t drag around in Engrave mode.
If you go to Engrave mode and click “frames,” you should see the green box light up that the page title is situated in. You can click on the border and use alt+arrows to move the box (opt+arrows on Mac)
Ideally, you should make the adjustment to the “Default” page template. That means you do it once, and it is applied to every page. Otherwise, you’ll need to do it manually on every page.
Manual adjustments are always the last resort, after you’ve set the default/global settings.
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That’s helpful. Thanks! What if I want the text of the title to be different than on the first page. Ideally I’d like less text on the subsequent pages, like a shortened version of the title.
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By double clicking on the title on page 2, for example, a window will appear to “open project info” (which will change the title and other things globally) or to “edit frame contents.” When you click “edit frame contents,” you’ll see the frame contents automatically insert the global title into this frame with the code “{@flowTitle@}.” You can simply backspace this and type whatever you’d like up there!
I also found in the Layout Options in the Setup window, you can change “page margins” and “music frame margins.” This will adjust every pages margins, and by consequence, where the Flow Title appears on the top of the page.
Thanks, but when I click on the title on page 2 I don’t see any windows appearing.
Double clicking?
Double clicking allows me to replace the text in the title box but that only applies to one page. It doesn’t transfer the change to the other pages.
Right, you’re only editing that frame’s content, not all the other frames. You could do this for all of them.
I’m not sure how to change the default settings so that frame on every page would contain something like a “{@shortenedflowTitle@}”
Right. I want to change the title for all pages other than the first page. There’s a lot of text in the score and it’s confusing to have a long title on the top of every page. But I’d prefer to keep the long title on page one.
Hm, yeah that makes sense. I’ve become a pro at manually making things look the way I want haha, but I don’t have the knowledge of how to make these background global changes. I know my way, though time consuming, would work, but anyone else know how to make global changes to frame content?
If I make some of the title a subtitle then it doesn’t appear on page one. Maybe I should be asking how to get the subtitle I add to the “project info page” to appear on page one.
I would wager that editing the title page frame and underneath the “{@projectTitle@}” adding “{@projectSubtitle@}” in the font and size you want would give you that result!
AhA! That worked. Thanks so much for the advice!
No worries!
Yes: As @benwiggy said, if you make changes to the page templates, all pages based on that template will pick up the changes. “Manual adjustments are always the last resort.”
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This depends on the setting of Preferences > Note Input and Editing > Editing > Open Project Info dialog when editing text frames containing tokens (all the way at the bottom).
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You can also have multiple page templates if you want different items, or fonts, or sizes, etc., on separate pages.
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My goodness there is a lot of misinformation in this thread. The last thing I expect @callmecooney would want to do would be to make manual changes to a running header on every page individually.
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