Master pages

Master pages function like templates in Dorico Pro, allowing the same page formatting to be applied to multiple different pages in different layouts.

All pages in your score and parts inherit their layout formats from master pages. Whenever you create or change anything on master pages, this is automatically reflected on the pages that use these master pages. For example, if you insert a new frame on a master page, a corresponding frame appears on all the pages that use that master frame, so long as those pages do not have master page overrides.

In Dorico Pro, master pages consist of page pairs. Every page pair has a left and a right master page, so that if a page in your project falls on a left page, the formatting of the left page of the master page pair is used, and if a page falls on a right page, the formatting of the right page of the master page pair is used. In both the Master Pages section of the Pages panel and the master page editor, page pairs appear side-by-side.

Dorico Pro provides default master pages for first (First) and subsequent (Default) pages. This enables you to format first pages differently compared to subsequent pages. Master pages are contained in master page sets for full score and part layouts. Master page sets are automatically applied to every layout that you create.

Figure: The Master Pages section of the Pages panel in Engrave mode, showing the two default master pages in the Default Full Score master page set.

If you want to change the master page sets or to change the format of the master pages, you can do so in any of the following ways:

• Create new master pages and master page sets.

• Edit the default master pages in the master page sets using the master page editor.

You can also make overrides to individual pages in layouts, but this does not affect the formatting of master pages.