I thought I’d cracked it but no. On the first page of a score I get to see the title, composer and copyright, but not the arranger. I’ve added the token and it appears on the template but not in the score. Help please.
You’ve edited the Default page template, which is typically used for page 2 onwards.
To change what appears on the first page of music, you want to edit the First page template.
You also need to make sure that you copy your edits to both sides of the page template.
Unless you mean you want the arranger to appear as part of the flow heading that gets inserted above the start of a flow? In which case, you need to edit the flow heading template.
If this isn’t clear, please share your project or a mock-up of the layout, showing where you want the arranger to appear.
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Hello Lille
Thank you for your reply. As you can tell I’m quite new to Dorico. 99% of the time I have only one flow and wish to have the title, composer and arranger on the first page of the score and all parts. I’m not sure why the composer appears as required but the arranger does not.
Thanks
Andy
I too am perplexed by tokens. Is there a video which explains how they work? How to create them, edit them, delete them?
Many of the principles of working with tokens and page templates are covered in this Discover Dorico session, which is probably worth watching:
@AFT If you’ve edited the Default page template, then the arranger won’t appear on the first page of music, because that page is using the First page template.
Here are labelled diagrams of the 2 types, showing you what appears on them by default. Dorico ships with page templates that show the project title, lyricist, composer, and copyright. If you want anything else to appear, you need to customize these page templates yourself.
You had the right idea about editing the template to add the token, you’ve just added it to the wrong page template 
Here’s a PDF reference card with most (all?) of the available tokens.
In terms of creating/using them, they are just text strings which Dorico knows how to replace with the appropriate information. So in any text frame, you can write the string {@projectTitle@}, and Dorico knows to replace that with the title of the project (from File > Project Info), when it renders the project.
You can also right-click in any text frame and see a menu of things you can insert; they’re listed in plain language, and Dorico will add the appropriate token when you click.
More about tokens:
Thanks Lille, I’ll work through those sheets in the morning
Thanks, asherber. That points me in the right direction. The other link to steinberg.help doesn’t work, as is the case quite often because Safari can’t establish a secure connection. Oh well. – Bill
If you’re having issues accessing the online webhelp, please share information about your browser and computer with us.
In the meantime, try using an alternative internet browser, if you can - we’ve heard cases of older versions of Safari having issues, for example.
Lillie, you are correct. One of my computers has an older Safari that does not play well with Steinberg. My laptop is more updated and works fine. Thanks to help here today tokens finally make sense. – Bill
I need to set up the credits according to the attached screenshot (this is a sample from the publisher):
The “Arranged by NAME” and the “Words and Music by . . .” boxes must be placed as shown in the screenshot.
- I don’t have enough space between the title and the music to do this AND
- the tokens are in the way.
So, unless someone can instruct me how to use the tokens to create this set up, I’ll need to delete the tokens and (I suppose) use a text box. - I’ll need some instruction on all of that.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks,
Rick
Welcome to the forum @Rick_Moore !
Have you watched the tutorial video posted earlier in this thread? You should find that it covers all the skills needed to achieve what you want (which is definitely achievable in Dorico using page templates, frames, and tokens - absolutely no need to add text items and drag them around!)
I haven’t. Sorry, I’ve seen so much information across the forum while searching for an answer, I’d gotten a little frustrated.
So, thank you for showing me where to fine it.
Rick.
If one needs more space for header material on the First Page Template, one can always lower the top of the music frame to allow more room.
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