I also just fell victim to this and had to redo a bunch of work… it’s really not obvious that text frames could be linked in this way… maybe we could have a button “new from selection” for page templates (as in the techniques and noteheads editor) that simply duplicates the selection without creating links…
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Another +1 to making this linkage less surprising (show some kind of unique identifier along the top of the frame, as with music frames? Or at least show that state within its properties?) and providing a way to unlink.
Unless I’m missing something obvious, pasting text back into the recreated frame loses rich text formatting (font sizes, bold, italic, etc.)? Just hit this issue when I needed some layout-specific tweaks to performance notes.
If Dorico allows us to duplicate an existing template, this solves the problem. Creating each page, head and music frame as the default template is time-consuming.