Dear Dorico developers,
I urgently ask you to finally ensure that the arranger name I enter into the info section actually appears on the score. The current method is impractical, cumbersome, and significantly disrupts the workflow. I cannot understand how anyone could design something so impractical.
Another problem: moving staves. The other staves need to move along with the one being shifted; otherwise, the system layout becomes a complete mess. Who on earth led you to think in such a convoluted way? Dorico should primarily serve musicians and composers, not IT engineers. Please stop constantly creating new, cryptic tokens and system fields, and please use the language of musicians—not programmers—in the Dorico Help documentation.
Many thanks!
Best regards,
Wolfgang
The Arranger info can be placed in a document as a token. If you usually want to have this on the first page, as is common, you may need to add it to the page template and save it as a default.
You shouldn’t be having to move things – it’s not the way Dorico was designed. You set the Engraving, Layout, and Notation options to get as close to the “look” you want and save any final adjustments for the very last thing you do. Dorico will do a lot of the layout for you if it is set up properly.
If you have not already, please check out the “First Steps” video — it is well worth the time to help get oriented to Dorico’s way of doing things. It is very different than some other notation software (most notably Finale) and you may need to adopt a new workflow.
If you have specific questions on how to do something folks on this forum are very helpful. If you can provide a file that shows the problem, you can get specific advice – often with examples – how to get what you want. Don’t go it alone, and don’t wait until you’re frustrated to ask. You’ll get friendly, generous help.
Welcome to the forum.
Many users do not need the Arranger name. Others need it in different positions.
That said, you only need to set up your Page Templates once, with the information in the correct place for your needs.
You can then either save this as a Custom Project Template (so it is immediately available for any future project created from that template) or you can export your Page Templates and import them into other projects as required.
To guide you, could you please give some examples of what you mean here? There are concepts in Dorico that have to do more with the publishing world than the musician’s.
To your comfort, it will stop being convoluted when you learn how Dorico works. Then you will possibly discover that your previous notation program was convoluted 