Hi! I’m pretty much new to Dorico, and I think there is a lot of potential, yet it’s I find it very difficult to apply changes to page layouts. It should be very simple as the video tutorials show, but I can’t figure out what happened to my project.
I wanted to have both the composer and the arranger shown in the first page of all parts, and they are currently there when I open the FIRST page template
I will try to attach a couple screenshots to illustrate better
You’ve changed the music frame chain on the First page template to MK.
Dorico uses the frame chain established on the Default page template as the automatic sequence.
Therefore, if your First page template doesn’t have a music frame on it that matches the music frame chain on the Default page template, Dorico can’t use the First page template automatically.
Edit your First page template again, and switch the MK frame chain back to MA.
This part of Dorico is still a bit unfamiliar for me (I have custom templates but I haven’t had the need to customize frames a lot) so this might be a very silly question, but regarding this part of the manual you linked to:
When learning stuff like this I always try to make sense of the abbreviations that are used. “L” for layout frame chains is obvious, but why the letter M for template frame chains (and not T)? I do vaguely recall having read somewhere that the term “master” was once used in previous versions of Dorico, so that could explain it. Just curious.
