Is there an easy way to select a number of systems and fit them into one page?
Thanks,
Walther
Yes! Select the first note you want to be at the start of the first system on the page, then Ctrl+click the note or rest you want to be at the end of the last system on the page, and in Engrave mode, click the Make Into Frame button in the left-hand panel.
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Thanks for the swift answer. However, another problem came up: as soon as I had my 24 measures (+pickup) into one āframeā, the first system (4 bars + pickup), previously turned into one system, broke up into two system, leaving me with 7 systems on the page. As soon as I forced the two systems back into one, the page broke up again. Any help?
The āproblemā is that you canāt have a frame break and a system break, both at the same place (in your case, both at the beginning of the score). But you can make a frame break act like a āframe + system breakā.
- First, delete all the breaks in the score (select the āsignpostsā and click Delete) and start again!
- Select the start and end of the first system and do āmake into systemā.
- Select the start and end of the first page and do āmake into frameā.
You now have three breaks - a frame break at the start of the score, then a system break, then a frame break at the start of page 2.
- Click on the Frame break at the start, and open the Properties panel (Ctrl-8).
- Switch the āWait for next system breakā option on. (The āwait for next frame breakā option should already be switched on)
Problem solved!
Rob, you are completely right. Iāve no idea HOW it is solved, but the problem is solved, indeed. Thanks.
I have been following Danielās advice as above, however I am working on a part with a whole bar rest (I would like the rest to be the last bar in the frame) and I can find no way of selecting the bar rest in either Write or Engrave mode. Shift-selecting the barline in Engrave mode deselects my first selection. The only way I have found to get my frame break in the desired place is to include the next bar in the selection, make into frame, then select the barline after the rest in Engrave mode, insert frame break, and then delete the frame break from the next bar. Is this a bug or expected behaviour, or am I missing a trick?
Is it possible that the single bar rest is drawing as a one-bar āmultiā-bar rest? Multi-bar rests canāt be selected, even if they are only a single bar in length. However, you can select the barline before or after the multi-bar rest instead, and that should work just as well.
Aha. I hadnāt realised I could just click the barline and then make into frame. I had assumed I needed to select the whole passage of music, and when selecting the barline the higlighting disappears on the first selection (first note in the frame) so I assumed it had deselected. Is this how itās supposed to work? It seems a little counter-intuitive to me. If I click a single object and Make into Frame, does it make an assumption about where the frame is supposed to start or is it dealing with the selection purely as a page break?
You should find that you can use a barline to describe the position of both ends of the selection, as it were, i.e. select the barline that you want to be the start of the frame, then Ctrl+click to select the barline that you want to be the end of the frame, and then do Make Into Frame. You donāt need to have notes or rests selected, but I normally do as theyāre a bit bigger and therefore easier to select.
Hi!
Is there a way to also specify a number of pages?
For example when I have 4 and half pages of music but I would like to fit it into 4 exactly.
Do I have to force individual pages manually? Or is there a way to tell Dorico to use a certin number of pages?
All the best
Joonas
Thereās no āfit to n pagesā functionality.
Perhaps you need to make your note spacing tighter or your space/rastral size slightly smaller so that Dorico fits the music into 4 pages automatically
The point was, actually, preserving the rastral size.
If you donāt want to change the note spacing or rastral size, youāll probably need to manually cram more bars on to certain systems or on to a page. You can manually select the bars you want to fit on a page, and select Make Into Frame. (Or select the break and choose Wait for next frame break.) This will allow you to override Doricoās vertical spacing algorithm to fill a page to over 100%.
Vertical spacing does tend to go a bit haywire when filled to over 100% so youāll likely need to do some manual cleanup, but I often end up filling to over 100% when I need to reconfigure the layout to avoid an orphan system or to provide a better page turn.