Urgent help with part layout

Hi,
I have made a composition with small fragments of music of different length.

Now I have to make parts for the 8 musicians playing the piece and they need the music as soon as possible.

I want to have as few page turns as possible, so I need to have several flows on one page. I tried to change the music frames but then the flow titles start to collide. I just want a page break function that works reliably, but I can’t seem to make any use of the system brake and frame brake functions. When I reset the layout nothing happens.
Any help is much appreciated!

Example: How do I make a page break before “5. Imagine…” in the part?
And again before “6. Digital Pitchshifts”? Without messing up the flow titles.

Best wishes from a Dorico novice

If the Flow headings are colliding, that’s because you’ve manually adjusted them. Remove all manual adjustments from the Layout.

If you want a Flow to start on a new page, then add a Frame Break at its start.

I reckon you could get 2 and 3 on the same spread, to be honest.

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You have very odd spacings with the flow headings… I’m wondering if you’ve been messing up manually with stuff… If it’s extremely urgent, you can send it to me, so that I fix it (for free) in the next half an hour. Anyway, if you want us to give you a precise advice, we will need to see the file :person_shrugging:
Anything else is second guessing, and… it’s long and painful.

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Thank you, - I did enable all signposts and tried to delete them and I pressed Reset layout - any other ways to remove all manual adjustmenst?

There actually is an override on page 5 — you removed the flow heading for flow 7, and I don’t know why. Still investigating though. No manual spacing changes…
Edit: changing this setting to all parts might make things better

And I actually made it bigger to a certain point in that piano/comp. part using flow heading changes to accomodate for the staff text.
Sending you back the file now :wink:

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Thank you very much! It is much appreciated. Wonderful. There is still some parts that have odd flow titles floating around. I don’t know if I should just delete them from the parts or…

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Thank you again for helping me. It is true, I did make some frame overrides for the flow headings. Any way to reset these? When I press reset layout the don’t move and are still on top of the music in some places. I could do it manually though, of course, but let me know if you have suggestions :slight_smile:

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In Engrave mode, right panel, you can right-click a page that has a red triangle (override) and Remove overrides from that page.