I’m slowly migrating to Dorico and I love the look of the musical output–very clean, crisp, and professional. However, I also publish editions of works with lots of critical commentary and have also created some workbooks in Finale. Here’s an example of a page:
Imagine my dismay when all that came through to Dorico was the music and parts of the text all mixed up. I know I should expect to do some editing, but this absolutely won’t work and this work still needs revising. I have kept from upgrading the operating system of my Mac solely to be able to continue to use Finale.
Yes, you can do it.
But you can’t transfer Finale projects— like the one in your screenshot— via music.xml into Dorico (or other notation apps) and expect that all the text formatting will come through (it won’t).
Ben suggested text frames in Dorico. I am not sure about all the formatting of your text, whether text frames would be my first choice.
You could try to use System Text or Staff Text for these text boxes (because they have a little text editor with formatting options built in).
Probably the most efficient way would be to write the four staves of music in Dorico, export this as a graphic slice, and do all the rest in a DTP application (where you import that slice).
Took me about 30 minutes to reproduce from scratch. The page proportions are a bit different but you get the idea. You will have to accept that each page is a complete override. And Dorico’s text typesetting capabilities are still rather lacking compared to a dedicated DTP app. But something like this is very doable.
