Trouble with notation frame after inserting a new page

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I wrote a page with notation and text frames, and after finishing the first page I inserted another, empty one. When I open a notation frame in Engrave Mode, the same notes as on the first page appear. When I want to change the notes in the new frame they also change accordingly in the first frame. I tried to unlink the frames, but that did not work. How can I put up an new frame without the kink, or how can I effectively unlink the frames?

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If Frames is selected in Engrave mode there is a blue popup menu LA in the top left corner of the new music frame.

Change it to MA.

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Yes, the reason for this is that if the new music frame you have drawn is assigned to a different frame chain than the first page, then Dorico will start the sequence of flows again from the start.

If you want to continue on from the previous frame, then assign the new frame to the same frame chain. Or, leave them separate, and select the specific flow(s) you want to show in your new frame manually, using the frame selectors.

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Thank you @Vadian and @Lillie_Harris ! I did as suggested, and the notes in the new frame disappeared! So that worked fine! Now I encounter a new challenge - how to place a new staff into the new frame. I hoped, since it is a musc frame, it would automatically produce a new staff, but, alas, it does not.

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If you want a new chunk of music, you need to add a new flow. Or, you can show blank staves in the frame (but you can’t add music to blank staves in Dorico; they’re for people to write on old-school style after the page is printed)

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Normally, you don’t need to create new blank pages: just enter the music and Dorico will make as many pages as are needed.

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Thing is I´m writing a little booklet with music and text, so that the music is always interrupted by text, and does not flow continually. So, I´m working with frames, and they don´t automatically produce a new page with staves on them.

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Thanks, @Lillie_Harris , I´ll try that as soon as I can. (time´s up for today…)!

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You can get automatic new pages when working with a layout like this – as long as your frames are coming from page templates, and are all assigned to the same music frame chain (the one that’s set up on the Default page template, which is usually MA).

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