Hi - I’m a songwriter and fiddle player, trying to create a set of simple charts for all my songs, to give to new bandmembers. Some of the songs will have a few lines of music, if there’s a significant instrumental part, but others will only have chords and lyrics in a text box.
My problem is that if I delete the music frame on a page, what I’d written in the Project/Flow info seems to go with it. It only shows the {@flowtitle@}, or whatever the token in question is. I’d like to have a separate Flow for each song (1-2 pages each). I made a Master Page for the text-only songs, but without a music frame the tokens don’t seem to work on it either. And I can’t figure out how to switch between Masters for a given page within a Flow - I can only add more pages.
What am I doing wrong? And - is there a way to delete unwanted pages?
Thanks! Project is attached
Jeff Songbook1.dorico.zip (700 KB)
When you use the {@flowTitle@} token, it specifically looks for the first music frame on the page in order to show the appropriate title for the flow shown in that music frame, so if there’s no music frame it can’t do this. Instead, you can use the {@flow1Title@} token instead, which would show the title of the flow numbered 1 in the Flows panel in Setup mode, without needing there to be a music frame there as well.
Does this mean it’s possible to have (and show( front matter for flows that don’t actually contain any music (and never will)? I’ve been fudging this with carefully typed text frames, but (for the purposes of tacet pages in parts) it might be valuable to use “real” flow titles etc.
Leo, yes, you can use {@flow1Title@} et al. on pages that contain no music frames and it will work reliably.
Steve, it looks like the version available on the Help site (here) is not up-to-date as of the indexed tokens we added in version 1.1. We’ll update this for the new update when it comes (it also includes some new tokens, for the time and date).
Does layouttotalpages exist? Or will it soon? I’ve been guessing '80s adventure game style. I can announce that there are no easter egg tokens for rude words…
Great! This is a kludge at the moment because it is not simple to do with master pages, as layouts have varying total page counts.
At the moment I go through changing the numbers on every page.
To delete unwanted pages, right-click the page you want to delete and choose Remove Overrides.
To make it such that you don’t get an additional page at the end of the flow, you’ll need to remove the MA frame chain from the default master page: as long as it’s there, Dorico will continue to believe that it needs to create extra pages at the end of the flow to fit the music in.
Is there no way to simply delete a page? For some reason my project just created an additional ten pages at the end (I don’t know what I did to it). Remove Overrides isn’t working as a way to delete them. They don’t have overrides to begin with, and that isn’t coming up as an option when I Right-Click the page (i.e. the symbol in the Pages panel).
dirtalley, it sounds like you’ve done something very very strange to your master page, probably involving music frames that aren’t in the MA frame chain.
Can you zip up your project and upload it here, or at least take some screenshots of what your master pages look like in Engrave Mode (with frames turned on)?
Firstly, let me apologise - you DID zip up your project and attach it to the first post; it’s just that by the time I read post #11 (possibly a few days later) I’d forgotten!
This one’s simple, I think:
You’ve given Dorico 13 flows, but only a couple of them actually contain notated music. The remainder just have an empty placeholder bar, but Dorico’s still seeing that as music that must be displayed. You can override that by going to Setup mode, selecting your “Full Score” layout (right side), and then unticking all the flows (bottom panel) that don’t contain music.
Thanks for looking at it! It was worth re-attaching it anyway, because the problem of the many extra pages hadn’t appeared when I made the original post.
I tried unticking all the non-music flows in Full Score, and it did work to get rid of the extra pages, but it also emptied all the bars of music I had written after the first page. I’ve attached another zip file of it in that state, so you can see it…something to do with the frame chain?
All the non-musical pages were made with the Text master page I set up, which doesn’t have a music frame in it. So maybe I should not have made separate flows for those pages?
This is my first time using Dorico for something like this (combining music and text pages), and I clearly don’t have a good understanding of Flows and Frame Chains and Master Pages. Can you suggest a better way to set this up? I don’t mind starting over, I can just copy/paste everything into a new project. The idea was to have each “song” be a separate entity, but have them all in one project so I can print them all together, make it into a PDF, etc.
Basically your music frames are all MA (Master) so Dorico is going to try to place each flow on a page, in the order that the flows are written. If you go into Galley View (bottom right corner of Write Mode) you can see that your actual music is in flows 1, 2 and 3; NOT flows 1, 6 and 10. This is why when you deselected flows 2-5, 7-9 etc. your music got deleted.
You’ve got two options:
Cut and paste the music from flow 2 to flow 6 and from flow 3 to flow 10. Then untick as before.
Cut and paste the music from flow 2 to flow 6 and from flow 3 to flow 10. Then go into Engrave mode, turn the Frames switch on, and in the top left corner of the first music frame click the drop down next to where it says “MA”. The “unlink”. Then click the dropdown next to “Flows:All” and just tick the flow that you want to appear on that page. Rinse and repeat for the other music frames.
The problem was, when I went to Page 15 and selected to delete the overrides, my first two pages were also deleted in the process. (MY title page and instrumental layout pages were deleted and a valuable part of my project naturally)
Can someone walk me through this process so not to delete anything of value, except for the empty pages at the end?
Amanda, we probably need to see your project (rather than a screenshot of some blank pages and some overrides) in order to work out how you’ve got where you are.
Make sure you select in the Pages panel only the page whose override you want to remove, and in the right-click menu choose Remove Page Override(s) and not Remove All Page Overrides.
