Section Titles

Dorico
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Most of my orchestral pieces are tone poems that have a story. I would like to add section titles in addition to the rehearsal marks.

  1. Is the best way to do this just to add text and move it around in Engrave?
  2. I know those signposts with the key signature don’t print, but how do I hide them while I am working?

Thanks.
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(There is a similar topic from four years ago, but the Forum warned me about reopening it. The solution in that thread was to use rehearsal marks for the section titles, but I need the rehearsal marks.)

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You can hide signposts via View > Signposts > Hide Signposts.

System-attached text created via Shift+Alt+X is probably the best way to add section titles.

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Great–thanks!

(By the way, I am a bit OCD and it bugs me when I fix something in Engrave but it still looks messed up in Write. :slight_smile: I am learning to accept it.)

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Have you tried custom flow headings?
I use those for studies collections.

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I have not yet. So far, I have been writing everything as a single flow with some double-bar sections. I will look into it. Thanks.

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It might only look messed up in Galley View.

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@konradh Only in Page view you have the correct calculated Distances, Avoid Collisions and manual editing results of Engrave mode.

In Galley view you have a static distance between staves (and no Collision avoidance). But you can set the ideal staff gaps for galley view to work more comfortably: Layout Options/Vertical Spacing/Ideal Gaps

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I will check it out. Thank you.

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I’d agree that using Flows is probably the best way – this is exactly what they’re for: distinct chunks of music with a title on each one.

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Any examples of how to do that? All i find are videos about printing different parts of a score. I’m writing a Binary composition and finished the first section. How do i add a new section to finish the composition. I’m stuck.

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You can add a new Flow in Setup mode, from the Setup menu, or using Shift F.

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I am writing a chamber opera, a flow for each movement. I have inserted extra pages to make cover pages for each act and scene with indices too. Problem is that those pages get moved around as I update the score. I know I can wait with engraving until everything else is fixed, but I really like to do it in parallel. I tried adding a tacet flow to keep the scene/chapter pages in place (since flows don´t get moved around), but still when I add an image or text box it gets moved around whenever I make changes to other parts of the score. I really wish I could somehow tie the image to the flow or even better force the title pages to stay in place between flows! Am I doing it all wrong, or is there a way about this?

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Hard to tell without seeing the document, but I would really suggest that you enter all the music and then do the layout. Otherwise you will be fighting yourself.

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