In my project, I need to edit some important footnotes on page 3 ; the other pages don’t have any.
So, I have to create a text frame so that I can host these notes ; (this text frame is not needed on the other pages).
I have to admit that I’m struggling with the page templates, etc. and I don’t understand a word of it.
Could you tell me the best way to proceed about this, guiding me through the manual (as it takes hours to find the answer and then experiment).
Do I need to create a new page template, and if so, how do I isolate it on page 3 only ?
Or should I work with flows ?
Normally I would suggest you create a “Footnotes” Page Template so you can use it in multiple places without creating an override. But since you only need footnotes on one page, creating an override by putting the footnote directly on the page is not a problem:
In Engrave Mode, click on the Frames tool at the left (highlighted in blue here):
Now click on the blue border for the music frame on page 3, so the handles appear. Drag the lower center handle up a ways to make space for your footnote.
Then under Insert Frames in the left panel, you want the Text Frame tool, the thing with the big “T” in it. Click that and then draw the text frame on page 3 where you want it—it will be in a green outline. Double-click within the new green text frame you created, and type your footnotes.
If you want the text to appear in the parts as well as the score (or in any combination of layouts), you can enter the text for the footnote into a field in the project or flow information and use the appropriate token in the text box on each of the layouts.
If you need complex formatting in your footnotes, that might be trickier, but if you need simple text that approach works well. You can do some formatting of text in the information using ‘markdown’, but it’s not so easy.
I would create a Page Template anyway, just in case a revision of the score some day moves the need for a footnote to a different page; reassigning the footnote page template to a new page would be easier than recreating the page override.
I would also suggest deselecting the top “padlock” icon in @Coranglais16 's diagram to prevent the footnote text box from changing its dimensions if the page size should change.
