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Update text fonts when changing music fonts
Allows you to include/exclude text fonts when changing the music font. For example,
deactivating this option allows you to change the appearance of notes and notations
without affecting the appearance of ow titles and staff labels.
● For the Bravura music font, the equivalent text font is Academico.
● For the Petaluma music font, the equivalent text font is Petaluma Script.
Use font’s recommended engraving options
Allows you to import the default settings that come with the font.
NOTE
Certain items that are marked as optional in SMuFL fonts, such as clef changes and non-bold
tuplet numbers/ratios, are not affected when you change the music font.
Text objects vs. text in text frames
Text in Dorico Elements can exist as a text object, added to individual staves or as system text,
and in text frames, which are xed to the page rather than the music.
As you cannot see or edit frames in Dorico Elements, both types of text look very similar. You can
tell the difference between text objects and text in text frames by clicking them once: if the text
appears highlighted with an attachment line to a staff, it is a text/system text object. If the text
does not appear highlighted or has no attachment line, it is in a text frame.
You can edit both types of text in the same ways, but you can only use text tokens in text frames.
You cannot use tokens in text added to staves/systems.
NOTE
The project title, page numbers, and running headers that are automatically shown in layouts are
in text frames. Their contents and formatting come from master pages, which you cannot edit or
create in
Dorico Elements. Editing text frames in layouts is considered a master page override.
Pages with master page overrides are not automatically deleted, even if they are empty because
the layout became shorter.
If you want to change the information shown at the tops of pages, we recommend that you do
so in the Project Info dialog to avoid master page overrides. The big title at the top of the rst
page is the project title, and the running header on subsequent pages uses the ow title for the
top ow on that page.
RELATED LINKS
Editing text on page 310
Text tokens on page 397
Hiding/Showing text objects on page 405
Text tokens
Text tokens are codes that you can use as substitutes for information stored in your project, such
as titles, composers, and the time and date. This can reduce the risk of mistakes or outdated
information appearing in your project. Text tokens are also known as “wildcards” or “text codes”.
For example, if you use a token for the title of your project, you can change the project title in the
Project Info dialog as often as you want, and the project title in every layout in your project is
updated automatically.
Layout and formatting
Text objects vs. text in text frames
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Dorico Elements 3.5.12