Flow headings automatically display the number and title of each flow immediately above their first system. Templates for flow headings allow you to achieve consistent formatting by applying the same arrangements of flow heading frames to multiple flows in different layouts.
Flow heading templates exist as part of page template sets. By default, Dorico Elements provides a single Default flow heading template in each page template set, which contains tokens to display the flow number and flow title; in a new project, this appears as “1. Flow 1”. This is used automatically for all flow headings.
By default, flow headings use the Flow Title paragraph style, which you can edit in the Paragraph Styles dialog.
You can change the tokens included in flow headings; for example, if you want to remove flow numbers and only show flow titles.
Any changes you make in the Edit Flow Heading dialog are automatically reflected on all pages that show flow headings. For example, if you delete a token, that token is removed from all flow headings in all layouts that use the same page template set, so long as the pages on which the flow headings appear do not have page template overrides.
Flow headings are automatically inserted inside music frames above the first system of the flow to which they apply, meaning they do not have a fixed vertical position on the page like other frames and follow the music if it moves. They also occupy vertical space within music frames. You can change the margins for the space above and below flow headings.
Changing individual flow headings in layouts is considered a page template override in Dorico Elements. This includes, for example, deleting a token from a flow heading on one page, rather than in the Edit Flow Heading dialog. Pages with page template overrides no longer get updated if you edit the flow heading and are not automatically deleted, even if they are empty because the layout became shorter.