Learning Leading Layouts | Discover Dorico

Simplify your scores and perfect your parts in this Dorico session where we look at all of the options available and make sure you aren't languishing in a layout labyrinth.
There are many variables you could change from page and staff size, ideal gaps to 'justify distance between staves and systems when frame is at least 60% full'. All of this and more is explained!

00:00 Intro
02:32 Column A and column B reference table
Column A
04:30 Paper size
06:12 Page margins
07:42 Music frame margins
09:02 Flow header
11:30 Master page template areas (title, composer, copyright, running header, page number – inc fonts and font sizes)
14:00 Initial staff gap – depends on the style of the project
14:48 Instrument naming convention (transposition shown? Short names etc)
16:10 Hide empty staves (scores only – French/study style but some choral and other layouts)
19:00 Casting off

Column B
19:58 Collision avoidance
21:50 Staff size
25:08 Manual staff size
28:36 Note spacing
32:19 Page turns
33:30 System/Frame breaks
34:20 Make into system/frame
36:00 Vertical justification
54:00 Manual staff and system spacing
1:03:40 Creating new default layouts
1:04:45 Propagate part formatting

The earlier Staff & System Spacing session is here:    • Staff & System Spacing | Discover Dorico  

Riemenschneider example that was referenced in this session is here:    • Engrave Mode, Layout and Defaults in ...  

ScoringNotes.com podcast 'Partying with Parts, Part 1' is here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...

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