Hi @klafkid, me again.
Indeed my idea was to have, after the main music one (ideally) flow, which would host such pages, a mix of text music of graphics frame. I started with one, was a little sloppy with the page templates, did not create any new one, and it worked. Some care is needed when editing the main, because music frames can spill between flows, and is seems better to have a specific layout for printing them, because they may need layout options which will disagree with the main music.
The I wanted to add some. I started from scratch, and added to my (already a little customized) Full Score Page Template Set an extra Page Template tuned for the pages of this extra flow. Apparently, this officially called an extraPageDefinition in the doricolib. Ideally this would be like my “normal” page template, including flow title and page number at the top, copyright at the bottom, but without the big music frame. I quickly learned that pages without any music frame would be ignored by the printer. Of course, when I would create such a page, I would always add at least one music frame, but to be on the safe side, I managed to create a page with a minimum music frame, not claiming any music content, and only visible as a thin line at the top. I did try, in my original experiment, to insert such a page with only text and the “phony” music frame, and I managed to print it, but the printer was “reluctant”: if I selected the flow, it would not be printed, I had to select the 2 pages!
What I hoped for in the best of cases:
- Systematic use of this page template after the end of the main music flow (I have already set Use First Page Template for first flow only)
- No need for page overrides.
- Only one flow (fingers crossed).
But this did not work at all like I hoped.
The main thing is that in the main flow, pages are in a way created automatically (from the normal page template) by the music, and occasionally by the Create Frame Break. None of this would exist in my extra flows(s).
The available actions are Insert Pages on one side, and Add Flow or Split Flow on the other, but they are uncooperative.
Ideal action for me would be either “Add Flow switching the extra page template and the normal page template” or “Add Flow using the extra page template for its first page” but there is none.
And for the alternative of adding an extra page first, and creating the flow afterward, all my attempts to Split Flow after doing that (and even adding a true music frame in the page) resulted in disasters, like music spilling between the flows, or unexpected page template changes. Also, though Insert Pages can be given a page template to use, it seems to guarantee overrides, that apparently cannot be undone without reverting to the normal page template.
From what you said, you must have done someting similar to this (maybe after experiments
). Can you give me tips?