What determines the number ordering of printed parts? I’ve got them organised in orchestral order in both the Setup and Layouts panels, but on Export, Dorico seems to be numbering them from another order specification. How can I fix this?
I think the default numbering respects the chonology of creation of the instruments… But there’s an ordering possibility (at the bottom of the Layout list) and an option to renumber the Layouts considering the new order.
Type the numbering order that you want, e.g. orchestral order.
You can click the ‘Sort Layouts’ (up and down arrow) button at the bottom of the Layouts Panel, to re-order the full score and parts by the numbers you have typed.
It’s from this panel that Dorico derives its numbering order for part PDF file names (e.g. 01-Full Score, 02 - Flute 1, 03-Flute 2 etc.).
Automatic renumbering layouts appears to count scores separately from parts so the numbering of parts always starts at 1 regardless of how many scores (full, condensed, vocal, etc) that you have.
For example, in a work with a full score and a condensed score, the scores are numbered 1 and 2 while the parts are numbered 1, 2, 3, etc.
Is there a ways to number the layouts so that all the layouts are numbered consecutively?
No, at the moment there’s no option for this, though it’s been requested before and we may add this in future. Obviously you can manually number the layouts to achieve this, but of course it takes a bit of time.