Hello! Is there an easy way to add all of this kind of text at the top of a Dorico Score? (Instrument list, show title, song number in the corner, etc.) It’s pretty standard across Musical Theater score formatting. Thanks!
Do you know about the templates from Scoring Express?
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To do that, you need to use Engrave Mode.
The “proper” way to do it is to edit the page template (which can be found on the bottom-right, double-click on the template to edit, you probably want to edit the “First” template), however you can technically just do this to the page itself, but I’d not advise that.
Once you’ve got it open, go to the Frames tab on the left zone, and click on Add Text Frame, the square with a uppercase T in it.
Once you’ve got that selected, you can drag them out on the page as desired, use the Frames tab on the bottom zone to precisely refine them.
To format the text itself, you can use the right-click menu’s options, but I’d not recommend them, as I’ve had a few issues with them being consistent when combined with templates.
Insted, use the Paragraph Styles, which you can find under the Library tab in the toolbar.
Here, press on either of these buttons, the one on the left will create an entirely blank style, whereas the one on the right will clone the selected one, with the switches next to each formatting option allowing you to control what it inherits from the style you cloned it from.
I’d recommend creating a “Main” style you clone the others off from, to help consistency with fonts and such.
From there, use this drop-down on the right-click menu for your text frame to select your format.
For the text itself, you can just double-click and type it in, but you could also use the right-click menu for editing the text, which allows you to insert various pieces of project information like the project/flow title, which saves you from witing them for each one, however you’ll still probably need to manually type some things.
For more information on the matter, I’d recommend the Create a Title Page episode of Discover Dorico on the Dorico YouTube channel, which, while being about title pages, is still applicable to most of this.
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Thank you so much for taking the time to provide such fantastic guidance. I am still pretty new at Dorico and am fumbling my way around a bit. Thanks a bunch!
@Derrek wow! thanks for that link!
You’re welcome!
Also, should probally mention how to edit project info, just go to File, and click on Edit project info, or press Control + I.
The labels don’t particularly matter, you can put whatever you want in there, they’re just for organisation. You sadly can’t edit them, but it’s pretty easy to make do with what you have.
Be aware they’re global, not specific to the player/layout you’re editing.