Hi, I’d like to be able to have a specific number of bars on each line. So, in other words there’d be a gap in between a set number of bars. Some lines may have two bars and the next line might have four. I’ve read about creating a coda and hiding it as a solution. How do we do this please?
Many thanks.
A Coda is one of the possible repeat markers. You can insert them by “shift-R coda”.
Depending on your needs, cutaways might be of interest too.
Hi @GeorgeGoodnight, besides the very useful suggestions by @TonH, if what you need is for some sort of exercises, or examples etc…, another possibility is to use flows. Here an example using 3 flows and each flows is a system with a defined number of bars, and with the factory Note Spacing layout option (Only justify final system in flow when more than 50 % full, where you can set the % as needed) they will maintain the empty spacing at the end of system:
Dorico file example:
different bars per system with flows.dorico (1.3 MB)
Hi Christian, thanks for your reply. I’ve just got into flows today. It is for exercises/reference material. Flows would be ideal, my next question is: is it possible to have some flows with a title and some without? I’ve got it set up to have titles by default when I create a new flow. I’ve tried leaving the field blank in project information but then it automatically fills in with “Flow 2” etc.
Thanks again.
Thanks so much TonH for taking the time to reply. I’ll look into those solutions.
One could create a custom blank Heading Template in Engrave mode and assign it where no flow title is needed.
Hi @GeorgeGoodnight, thank you for this interesting question. Yes! Dorico is very powerful and there is a dedicated functionality called Flow Heading Overrides. You can create all sort of customised flow headings (with custom top/bottom margins too) and assign it to each flow independently, or you can also decide to don’t have a flow heading for a desired flow.
I made a video explaining this:
Here the result where you can see my custom flow headings:
And the Dorico file example:
using flow headings overrides.dorico (1.4 MB)
And here the Manual:
You can enable/disable Flow Headings on a flow by flow basis via the Flow Heading Override feature.
In Setup mode, right click on a Layout in the right-hand panel. There you can call up the Flow Heading Override dialog.
Edit: ninja’d by @Christian_R
Thanks ever so much for taking the time to share this, I really appreciate it.
I should have said that my version of Dorico is elements and so overriding flow heading is not possible as far as I know.
Great video though, thanks again.
You might consider hiding flow headings in Layout options and just using staff/system text for your Exercise headings. Perhaps not the most elegant, but very simple to do in Elements.
Thanks Christian!
The last time I applied a Flow Heading Change I started in Engrave Mode on the small icons in the right panel. However, as you demonstrate in the example video, doing this in Setup Mode is also possible - but totally new to me. I must have missed that class…
Learnt something quite essential and new today.
@k_b
Yes, Flow Heading Change and Flow Heading Override are two similar but different things. FHO gives you much more flexibility.
(The biggest limitation of FHC -and probably the reason for the birth of the new FHO functionality- is that you can only have one change per frame/page.)
Exactly, I still had in my head the „once per layout page“ change. I must have missed the upgrade to the new function.
