OK – my question is, is there something in particular I can set, a process in Dorico, where I can set up a 12-18 player score to print, landscape-style, showing two (contiguous) pages on the same page? Miniturizing them in other words- You often see scores printed out in this fashion, where a person can follow all the instruments on the page, twice? Or am I missing something? So, any advice will be a help…
where do I find “job type?”
If I’m following what you are asking, just set the page to be portrait in Layout Options, then change the rastral size to be something small enough so you get 2 systems per page. This basically gives you 2 landscape score systems per portrait page. You can automatically have system dividers appear this way too.
That is exactly what I am after (I think) except perhaps in a landscape perspective.
But tell me then what are the measurement settings I would need to get that?
Gracias
OK folks that is Pretty close to what I want I got two pages to lay side by side but is there a way to format it so that the clefs do not show, and you get a continuous flow on one page of more than 2-3 (or 7 or 8) measures- without any clefs, just the music as it runs? If not, well I guess it cannot be helped but, this is just something I would like to do if I can…
In Print Mode you can’t modify any existing elements (for example removing clefs, brackets, staff labels, etc.). But you can create multiple Full Score Layouts and print whichever one you need.
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And they will show that way regardless if they have data in the measures already?
Or can this only be done at the beginning and start of putting together a flow?
I will be looking into it but another reply would help
You can create layouts at any stage of your work — beginning, middle, end… it doesn’t matter.
If you can explain exactly what you need, you’ll surely get help here. Do you need the Full Score in both portrait and landscape (i.e. 2 versions of the Full Score)? Or only in landscape? Dorico’s Setup Mode is very powerful and can handle everything!
it will take me some time to explain it fully I suppose but I will add any attachments to explain when I do
I do not seem able to conver a previous porait format into a landscape one as suggessted yet though. I have maybe fifteen full scores, and I have printed about ten of them already without the modifications I am asking about, so “doing that again” will not necc be what I want to endure. BUT being able to run them into landscape format and double-paned in paticular would certainly end up saving me a lot of paper since the five remaining look to clock into “1-300 pp each” including parts). The parts don’t figure in here, though, only the full scores. Anything I can do to reduce the amount of sheets used is really how I am looking at it…
This is all accomplished within Layout Options. Let’s say I start with a portrait score like this:
With the Score layout selected on the right, you can see these are my settings:
If I change those to Landscape and a much smaller rastral size like this …
… then I can have a Landscape score with 2 systems per page like this:
The exact settings will depend on your page size, music involved, and acceptable legibility. You can play around with the rastral size until you find defaults that are appropriate, then you can make adjustments where needed.
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You don’t need to “convert” at all.
In Dorico you just add a further Full Score Layout in Setup Mode. This new Layout you can set to Landscape, smaller staff size, narrower note spacing and so on - as described above. Your already existent music will fill this new layout.
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OK thank you I think I have enough info to work with for a while
that’s probably the solution what I am looking for.
I will work around with this stuff for a whiles
Thank all of you for helping!
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From the looks of what i am doing the best way to get a legible size is just to put a double pane of two portait pages together rather than landscape. In landscape too much white space is given over to cramming the instruments too close together- the staffs are too tight, and the whole setup looks too small no matter which ‘raster’ settig is changed. But yet it might work, the pages tend to give up at least 6-8 measures per page still and while it isn’t quite the ten it can be in landscape, they’re more legible.
This all depends on your paper size.
Which paper size do you use in portrait mode, which paper size can you use in landscape orientation? How many staves is your music occupying?
8 1/2 x 11 12-18 staves
That’s letter size.
If you use it in portrait mode you have 11 inches to distribute your margins, title and 12 staves - which might be sufficient.
If you turn this letter format into landscape, you have only 8.5 inches for the same amount of staves. Even with Rastral size 7 that’s not enough.
If I understand you correctly, you want to stay in portrait mode, utilising the height of 11 inches and then tape two of them next to each-other.
Have you thought of using Tabloid paper format, which gives you the same 11 inches height in landscape orientation?