I’m creating a collection of choral pieces, some plainchant, some polifonic, some with many verses I’d like to add below the song as a text, ect. I’ve already made some and created individual music frames for each song, loads of overrides, as if I made a puzzle. It worked well, but also I always had a hinder thought whether I could make the whole liyng on the waves of the genuin method of Dorico using only one master frame. What is your experience? Could be managed a full collection by using one master page layout, or breaking it into many individual frames is the only solution?
Technically frames often refers to different pages, whereas flows may more closely resemble what you are thinking of (allowing for some translation ambiguities).
I could see combining all those different formats consecutively in a single Page Template frame or flow. A lot depends on whether the various different formats represent different movements or songs or whether they lead from one to another to form a single song.
I have sung music that alternated plainsong verses with fauxbourdon “polyphony” sections. In that sense they all were parts of a single song, but could have been written as separate flows or as one flow.
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Dorico currently lacks the tools needed to handle mixed notation and text blocks satisfactorily.
(I’m sure the team is working on ways to improve this)
Personally, I would like the ability to flow text between text frames on the page template just as notation flows between music frames. But I’m sure that is not simple
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Thanks for your reply, really appreciated. It means that my genuin thought was right to make everything tailored and haven’t failed anything Doricoish. Great! It’s a cool job to make jigsaw puzzle with such a beautiful result!