Layouts
You can control practically every aspect of the visual appearance of the music in each layout independently, including staff size, note spacing, and system formatting. Each layout can also have independent page formatting settings, such as page size, margins, running headers, and footers.
Dorico Elements provides the following layout types:
- Full score
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A full score layout includes all players and all flows in your project by default. Full score layouts are concert pitch by default.
- Part
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A part layout is automatically created when you add a player to your project. You can also create empty part layouts and assign players to them manually.
By default, instrumental part layouts contain all flows. They are also transposed pitch by default.
- Custom score
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A custom score layout initially does not contain any players or flows. This allows you to create your score manually and, for example, assign only one flow instead of all flows or only vocal and piano players to create a vocal score. Custom score layouts are concert pitch by default.
You can combine players, layouts, and flows together in any combination. For example, you might add all percussion players to a single part layout so that the performers can manage instrument changes themselves. In a large-scale work, you might also create a piano reduction for choir rehearsals, but only assign that piano player to the vocal score, meaning it does not appear in the orchestral full score at all.
You can also create as many layouts as required.