Lesson Manual with Text and Music

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I am about to embark on writing a lesson manual that combines text and musical examples. In most cases there will be text followed by a musical example. Then, more text and another musical example.

There are two ways that I could approach this project -

  1. Create the Lesson Manual in a word processing application and then paste in the musical examples as images. I believe I would have to create a separate Dorico document for each musical example and the somehow turn it into an image that could be embedded into a word processing document.
  2. Create each lesson in Dorico and add the text before and after each musical example. I can only assume that I would need to create a Dorico document for each lesson with multiple flows to accomplish this.

In either case, I would need to be able to save/print each lesson in brochure format (2 pages per side, front and back on a single sheet of paper) per school printing department instructions.

So, my question is, does anybody have any experience with this, and which method would be best?

Sincerely,

Dan Beggs

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No need to create multiple documents, you can do it all in one document perhaps using multiple flows. The images are created in Engrave using graphic slices which can be exported in various formats.

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Whilst it is technically possible to do the whole thing in Dorico, I think it is much easier to use a word processor/publisher and import images.

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Thank you, Janus. I did not realize that option existed. Also, thank you for the quick response.

DB