But my case is somewhat different: I had a project with 2 flows, one for the main music, the other for a short analysis of a short section. Up to now this analysis had one page with 4 frames:
A 5 lines text frame
A music frame withonly one system
A 10 lines other text rame
A Graphics Frame, a Graphic slices from the main music flow
I created a special layout to print the analysis, all worked well. Then I thought that some more general analysis would be appropriate as a preamble, which I wanted to add before what I had already.
Since the current page was well full, I went to insert a new page. I had benn a little sloppy about the first one, did not create any specific Page template, This time I created a version of Default without the music frame but keeping the title, page number, and the copyright, I inserted at the start of the second flow, added a big text frame which I filled with some text written in Word. It looked almost perfect till I remarked that the title read {@flowtitle@}, not the token value (page and copyright were ok)! I took a look in Print Mode, and indeed the extra page was totally ignored.
Is the answer the same? Personally I think that comments referencing the score belong with the score,
Too lazy to try it myself right now, but what happens if you use {@flow2title@}, with the flow number in it, or something similar? Does it reference the actual flow, even from the non-music page?
Wow! It works. Well done @PjotrB! I hope you had a resting night sleep .
Yet, the following page of this flow (the first one originally) worked without the 2. I wonder why… And the printer still doesn’t see that page. I am worried that indeed a page without any music frame doesn’t exist for the printer any more than it exists for the playback .
And though my original page printed as I wanted, I wonder, if I had needed a little more space for it, and a second page, and there would have been no music on the second, would that extra page also be ignored?
Curiouser and curiouser!
I experimented by creating a local music frame in my new inserted page. Of course it appears with the same contents as the music frame in the original page, and the two pages are printed when I select the flow as Print range. I do not want that so I switch the new Music Frame to Blank Staves. That is pretty discreet, not yet invisible, but one thing at a time. And since there is no real music here, printing the flow again skips the new page! But selecting Pages 5-6 as Print range works at last (caution, Pages 5, 6 prints them as 2 separated pdf files)!
So this is the start of a solution to “musicless printable pages” in a flow, I shall think about Page Templates, but I am afraid I have to swallow the fact that they are not normally supported, and the printing difficulties highlight the fact that even this solution is quite borderline!
It also probably answers some questions I had about Frame Chains. I have seen reference both to Music Frame Chains, and to “just” Frame Chains, I even read a Forum member hoping that those would be made first class citizens in some later version, but I am afraid that only Music Frame Chains make sense, because Music is what creates the chain in a flow! I can imagine no way to synchronize text and graphics in the same way.
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