I have a project where most of the time flows start on new pages, but occasionally I have room to start a flow half way down a page.
First I set Dorico to allow new flows on the same page as existing flows (Layout options IIRC). Then I put in some manual frame breaks and set Master Page Changes to all the places where flows need to start on new pages.
In Engrave mode I created a new master page based on “First” and set its type to “Custom”, and named it “Halfway new flow”
I opened “Halfway new flow” in Master Page Editor and set all of the “Top” parameters for my existing text frames (Title, Subtitle, Composer, Lyricist etc.) to around 350pts, which brings them all around half way down the page.
Then I fiddled with the existing music frame to push it up above my text frames and added another underneath.
I set both frame chains to “MA” so that music flows the way I want it to.
So far so good.
Dorico can’t yet handle text tokens for new flows started on pages with existing flows; e.g. if you have a Prelude with flowTitle “Prelude” and a Fugue starting down halfway down the page straight after the Prelude, the title, on both pages, is going to be “Prelude” (not “Prelude” followed by “Fugue”).
To deal with this, still in Master Page Editor, I overwrote {@flowTitle@}, {@flowSubtitle@} etc. with “Title” and “Subtitle” - just placeholder text that reminds me to put something else there when I’m working with individual pages rather than the master page.
The problem is, all of my Titles and Subtitles on all of my normal First pages got replaced with “Title” and “Subtitle”.
It’s like the whole Left-Right and Right-Left thing in Master Pages Editor is actually linking my new Master Page (Halfway new flow) with my standard (First) Master Page.
Where have I gone wrong?