As you can tell by this screenshot, I put in a Text Frame with the Flow Title text token followed by a Music Frame set to the flow that matches the Flow Title. However, the Text Frame is within the Music Frame. I don’t know what’s causing this. I watched the tutorial videos and they seem to show that you need a separate Music and Text Frame to get the result I’m wanting to achieve. I have to say that it’s not causing me a problem to just allow the Music/Text Frames to stay connected, but I am sure there are other uses where I won’t want that to happen.
Also, I am unable to copy/paste frames, so resizing everything to match is quite tedious at the moment (a lot of eyeballing).
EDIT: I ran into another issue. I removed the initial indent for staves so it’s all left-aligned, but now it compressed my first flow so that it doesn’t reach the end of the Music Frame. I have it set to justify frames when they are more than 50% full. I tried changing it to 80% and it caused problems with a lower Music Frame. I then changed it to 100% and the music still did not stretch to the end.
It looks like the effect you want would be better suited to using Flow Headings. Then you can set the Layout Options (Page Setup –> Flows –> Show Flow Headings for all flows) you want to achieve consistent spacing, and change the Paragraph Style of the text you use (in this case, Flow Title) so that you don’t do many (or any) manual adjustments.
Gotcha, I tried that and it worked! By messing around, I also seemed to have solved most of my other issues as well, except for the Long Tones line being pushed to the left.
Just in case it helps: you don’t need to create music frames for each flow. You’ll get a better result (and it will be much easier to manage!) with a single frame per page, as per the default template pages.
I tried using graphics and text over a music frame for a while. It is doable, but I found it best to exhaust Dorico’s native capabilities (Staff attached, system attached text, symbols, lines, etc.) first before going that route. The issues arises that if you change the frame that is underlying your custom additions, then it’s highly likely that your text and graphic overlays will then be out of place in respect to the updated underlying music frame and will need to be repositioned. It can be a huge headache if there’s a lot of this to manage.
