Title page to connect and print together with flows

Dorico
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Hello,

I’m working with a project that contains multiple flows, and I want to have a separate title page for each flow.

I’ve created a page template for my title page containing text tokens like {@flowtitle@}, and I’ve inserted a “page template change” before the start of the flows. However Dorico will not display the name of the following flow.. Only the token is displayed..

It seems that Dorico doesn’t “connect” the title page to the flow?

I’m trying to figure out if it’s possible to make Dorico connect the title page to the actual flow?

Also, when I go to Print mode and select to print an individual flow, the title page doesn’t show up…

Any help is appreciated!

best

Filip

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Until Dorico is within the music frame of the new flow, it does not know which flow’s information to show.

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Hello,

Thanks for the response.
I understand. So is there any workaround to be able to have a title page “connected” to the following flow?

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@Stu_M has a clever workaround for this. You add an extra bar at the beginning of the piece, renumber bars so you have two bar #1s, insert a frame break on the second bar #1, give both pages template overrides, and cover up the bar on the first page with a text frame with a solid background

He actually has it setup in his template so this is setup for all flows, with the first whole rest/meter hidden, and the bar line of the second bar #1 dragged back to fully hide that bar. Then it’s easy to enable/disable the effect for each instrument with just a few actions. He may explain better.

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Here is a simple project that demonstrates the workaround for maintaining flow-specific tokens on seemingly blank first or internal pages.

Rarely do I find that this is worth the effort, since it requires bar number changes, page template changes, hiding bar numbers, and most time-consumingly: manually tinkering with horizontal note spacing in all layouts not using the workaround; however, it does allow for adding blank pages within flows, and these pages can be exported/printed as a part of the flow.

This project contains 3 layouts for the same music/player: one demonstrating the workaround with page template changes, a second layout explaining the workaround, and a third layout demonstrating what’s necessary in any layouts that don’t employ the workaround.

Again, I’m not sure this saves much time compared to either using separate projects/layouts for each flow, or dealing with introducing page overrides (you can always use {@flow2title@}, {@flow3title@}, etc.). But it does work if you need it.

Blank Page Within Flow Workaround.pdf (46.9 KB)

Blank Page Within Flow Workaround.dorico (1.7 MB)

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Thank you very much for the solution.

I will look into it.
For my case, I think it makes sense to have all the flows (they are basically separate songs but with same instruments) together, to be able to maintain and organize the same layout for everything.
But of course I can make them into separate projects and just import the layout settings.

I will think about it.
Thanks again for the help!

best
Filip

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And hopefully in the future the developers can include a function to be able to have title pages “connected” to flows when printing, but mostly for managing tokens like flow title and so on..