Re: Dorico release and tutorials

[Gilles]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 12:44:22 +0200, Urs Liska wrote:
> Am 19.10.2016 um 12:41 schrieb David Kastrup:
> > Pierre Perol-Schneider <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > I just watched the vids. One thing I appreciate is the pages layout
> > > possibilities.
> > > It would be great if LP had something like:
> > >
> > > \paper {
> > >   %defaults settings:
> > >   right-margin = 10
> > >   left-margin = 10
> > >
> > >   %specific page settings:
> > >   \page #1 {
> > >     right-margin = 20
> > >     left-margin = 20
> > >   }
> >     page.1.right-margin = 20
> >     page.1.left-margin = 20
> > > }
> > I'm not saying that we currently have this, just that this would be 
> > one
> > possible interface.

Doesn't the page number depend on how the previous material
has been typeset?

> That looks very nice.
> On a related note (not knowing whether Dorico has this) it would also 
> be
> great to be able to specify the global-staff-size for individual 
> pages.
> It's pretty common in larger orchestral scores that you have only a
> small number of pages where you need the full orchestra and want to 
> have
> smaller staff size.

It seems to me that, rather than "specify the global-staff-size
for individual pages", it should be "from now on, magnify the
global-staff-size so that <n> systems fit the page".

Regards,
Gilles