Hello,
In engrave mode, the music frames display all bars continuously until all is displayed. Can I set the number of bars to be displayed in a music frame, or display a set of bars I specify ?
Thx
Q
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Hi @quanghn2015 , you can use Frame Breaks in Engrave mode to obtain this.
Also, in Layout Options/Staves and Systems/Casting Off you can set the number of bars per system, and the number of systems per frame (in combination with the manual Frame Breaks or even System Breaks, if needed).
There are also commands to Make into system and/or Make into Frame to obtain similar results. I suggest you familiarise with the concept/property of Wait for next Frame break , Wait for next System break:
(“Note” from the Frame Breaks links above):
If this doesn’t answer your request, can you post a Dorico file example and explain what you need in context?
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No, it’s all or nothing. You can’t tell a Frame Chain to display only specific bars within a Flow. You can only manipulate at the Flow level.
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Page template frame chains (that is, frame chains that are set up on page templates) will always create as many frames as are needed to show the whole flows in that chain.
Layout frame chains cannot do this: so music frames that you draw directly onto pages only show as much music as fits into that frame (and you can reduce this by inserting a frame break, to push music beyond that point out of the frame).
See this video (one of my favourites) for a demonstration:
Depending on why exactly you only want to show specific bars (to create an index, like in the video? To create a notation explanation page?) there might be other ways of achieving the same result. For example, creating extra flows to demonstrate short excerpts of music or notation.
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Would be great for program notes/instructions.
Jesper
My usage is slighty different from the Youtube link. I needed to show 1 bar of music next to the lyrics. In engrave mode, I ended up sizing each music frame to display the desired bars . This is why I was looking for a way to set the number of bars per music frame. This can save time from tweaking the size of music frames. I still need to figure out other ways and not %100 familiar with all features in Dorico5.
Q
In this example (and apologies if this is already what you’ve done, as I can’t see the frame setup from the screenshot) you can:
- assign the frames to the same frame chain, to let the music “flow” through the frames in a continuous stream
- insert frame breaks where you want to push subsequent bars into the next frame, if that’s not how they fall naturally
In your example, the top 4 bars on the right (from b11) could all be in the same frame, with system breaks instead of frame breaks to force bars onto the next line.
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