Insert boxed "Score in C" or "Transposed Score" text

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Hello,

Is there an easy way to insert boxed “Score in C” or “Transposed Score” text in the top left of the first page of the score? Ideally that would automatically change depending on whether the score was currently set for concert pitch or transposed?

Thanks!

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There’s no token for that to do it automatically, but it should be quite easy to create an additional full score layout, keep one in C and set the other to transposed, and add the text and boxes manually.

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It’s a good idea to add this as a token, so I’ll add this to our wish list for the future.

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I think this is the right spot for this–for a transposed score I had to create text in score “Transposed Score.” Luckily, I just caught myself with a score as I put the score back into concert but still had the text say “Transposed…” and fixed it.

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I will often use the built in Lyricist text block for this info since it’s already there, just enter Transposed Score or whatever in the project info setup.

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I create two score layouts: a Conductor Score, which is transposed and Condensed, and a Working Score in Concert and not condensed (and sometimes with a piano reduction in it).

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I am creating “transposed score” as a box in my full score now. Only problem is, that text box automatically transfers into the parts. I don’t think I need “transposed score” to appear in the flute part. Is there a way to get the term to stay on the full score, but remove it from the parts?

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How are you creating it? If you add a text frame either on the page template for your score or directly on the first page of your score layout, then it won’t appear in other layouts. If you’re adding it as staff text, then you’ll need to hide it in the layout of the instrument it’s attached to.

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I’m using shift+x and attaching it to a note.

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So that’s “staff text” in Dorico. Because it’s attached to a note, it will show up in any layout that includes that note. It would be better to do this with a text frame in your page template with the {@layoutTransposition@} text token, the same way that things like project title and composer are handled. If you add the frame to your score template, it will only show up in the score.

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That’s great! I did not know about that distinction. I will try that now. Thank you!

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This is an old post and the token that I had asked for in the initial post now exists.

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