Table of Contents
Layout and formatting
There are various ways you can control the layout and formatting of pages in your project, including changing the size of pages and adjusting note spacing.
Frames
Dorico uses boxes called frames to position music, additional text, and graphics inside the margins of pages. In Dorico SE, you cannot input or edit frames, but frames on master pages control the formatting of pages in your project.

Frames

Dorico uses boxes called frames to position music, additional text, and graphics inside the margins of pages. In Dorico SE, you cannot input or edit frames, but frames on master pages control the formatting of pages in your project.

In Dorico SE, there are the following types of frames:

Music frames: Music frames display the music of selected players and flows or blank staves.

Figure 1. A music frame displaying the start of a piano piece
Text frames: Text frames display text, which you can enter directly or by using text tokens.

Figure 2. A text frame displaying a project title, "Sechs Lieder"
Graphics frames: Graphics frames display the images that you load into them, which can be in a variety of formats.

Figure 3. A graphics frame with image loaded

Example

Figure 4. The first page of a piano piece. It contains a music frame, text frames for the title, dedication, and composer, a flow heading frame inside the top of the music frame, and graphics frames in the top corners.