User manual

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● In Setup mode, right-click an instrumental part or a full score in the Layouts panel

and choose Layout Options from the context menu.

2. In the Layouts list, select the layouts in which you want to change options in one of the

following ways:

● Click Select All.

● Click Select All Full Score Layouts.

● Click Select All Part Layouts.

● Click Select All Custom Score Layouts.

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Ctrl/Cmd-click individual layouts.

●

Shift-click adjacent layouts.

By default, the layout currently open in the music area is selected when you open the

dialog.

3. Click a page in the page list.

4. Look through the available options, and change the options you want.

5. Click Apply, then Close.

NOTE

If you make changes and close the dialog without clicking Apply, you are prompted to

save or discard your changes.

RESULT

The changes are applied immediately to the selected layouts.

Players

Before you start writing music, you must specify the players that are playing one or multiple

instruments.

A player can be a solo player, which represents a single person who can play one or more

instruments. For example, a clarinettist may double alto saxophone or bass clarinet.

A player can also be a sectional player, which represents multiple people, each of whom plays the

same instrument. For example, a violin section or the soprano section of a choir.

Dorico Elements uses this knowledge about players and their instruments to assist you in

producing a practical score eciently, for example, by making it very easy to handle instrument

doubling and divisi.

When you add a player in Dorico Elements, the following happens automatically:

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An instrumental part layout is created.

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The player is added to any full score layouts that already exist. If no full score layouts

exists, a new full score layout is created.

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The player is included in all existing ows.