Propagate Part Formatting dialog

Dorico Pro Help

Product
Dorico Pro
Version
5.1
Language
English
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The Propagate Part Formatting dialog allows you to copy the page formatting and layout options from a source layout to destination layouts.

You can open the Propagate Part Formatting dialog in Setup mode in any of the following ways:

  • In the Layouts panel, select a part layout, then click Layout Settings in the action bar and choose Propagate Part Formatting. This automatically selects that layout as the source layout in the Copy formatting from list.

    Tip

    You can also right-click layouts and choose this option from the context menu.

  • Choose Setup > Propagate Part Formatting.

Propagate Part Formatting dialog

The Propagate Part Formatting dialog contains the following sections and options:

  1. Copy formatting from

    Contains a list of all the part layouts in the project. You can only select a single part layout as the source layout.

  2. Propagate formatting to

    Contains a list of all the part layouts in the project. You can select multiple part layouts as destination layouts.

  3. Selection options

    Allow you to select/deselect all the part layouts in the Propagate formatting to list.

  4. Include layout options

    Allows you to copy layout options relating to part formatting from the source layout to the destination layouts. These options include page size, page margins, the default page template set, space size, vertical spacing, note spacing, casting off, multi-bar rest settings, and staff labels.

  5. Include system formatting

    Allows you to copy the distribution of bars in systems, systems on pages, and note spacing changes from the source layout to the destination layouts. Dorico Pro achieves this by copying system breaks, frame breaks, and note spacing changes, inputting additional system and frame breaks as required, and deleting any existing system breaks, frame breaks, and note spacing changes in the destination layouts.