Mislabelled flows using tokens

[francisb]

Hello,

In this file, you will noticed half of the flows are mislabelled, even if I use tokens. It seems there is a bug because I’m using two musical frames per pages.

Any idea how to fix this?

Francis

Accords à cinq sons.dorico (1.5 MB)

[asherber]

I think this is a known issue and was discussed recently, but I’m not able to find the previous thread right now.

[dspreadbury]

Dorico assumes there will only be one “nearest” flow at a given vertical position on the page, so it’s not considering the horizontal dimension when determining which flow should be used for the information that appears in the flow heading. There’s no way to influence this at present.

[johnkprice]

@francisb

Any idea how to fix this?

See this post for a workaround, including a title that spans both columns:

Tip: Creating a page containing two columns of flows with flow headings

In this post, I will show how to create the following page: [Image] If you try to create this page using a page template with two music frames side by side, it doesn’t work correctly. All the flows are displayed, but the flow headings in the second column duplicate those in the first column. One possible workaround is to put each column in a separate page with half the width and merge those pages side by side into a single page. But how can you display a project title that spans both columns? …

[Christian_R]

@francisb

Any idea how to fix this?

Hi @francisb, well not a fix but a suggestion: just use staff text with an appropriate paragraph style which imitates the flow title look and spacing (and hide the flow headings):

Dorico file example:
Accords à cinq sons-WITH TEXT.dorico (1.5 MB)

Look at the layout Full score (with text):

Paragraph style:

Before hiding the flow headings, I locked the frame (with only frame breaks). Once you have the desired text distance from staff (and hidden the flow headings) you can adjust the Vertical Justification, to distribute the staves as previously.

[francisb]

Hello all,

Thank you for your solutions! I was using flow headings to save time, but I can surely label them with text.

Tokens don’t work in text, right? If so, I could have copy-pasted {@flowTitle@} everywhere.

Best,

Francis

[Christian_R]

@francisb

Tokens don’t work in text, right? If so, I could have copy-pasted {@flowTitle@} everywhere.

You could insert several little text frames (create a text frame directly into the layout in Engrave mode, then with the frame selected, right click in the corresponding page thumbnail in the right panel and choose Copy Selected Frame to Selected Page: it will create a duplicate text frame that you can then move with the moving shortcuts) and insert the token there, but there are several disadvantages doing so:

• the frames need to be positioned one by one manually
• they are linked to the page, not to the music
• this procedure creates page overrides
• you need to specify which flow title you want to visualise in each one in the token {@flowxtitle@} (change the x to the specific flow number)

It is much more work, and in case of any change to the layout, you need to redo the changes, and the page overrides don’t let the page to follow any page template anymore

With the other suggested method you are better served for the time being.