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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.
Page formatting
The formatting of pages in Dorico Elements is determined by a number of factors, including the layout’s staff size, page margins, the master page applied to them, any casting off values applied to them, system and frame breaks, and frame padding.
Frame breaks
In Dorico Elements, you can use frame breaks to push musical material into the next frame, which is usually on the next page, meaning you can use frame breaks to create page breaks. For example, you can use frame breaks to insert page turns at specific positions in part layouts.
Inserting frame breaks
You can insert frame breaks at any rhythmic position, for example, to create page turns at appropriate places in the current layout.

Inserting frame breaks

You can insert frame breaks at any rhythmic position, for example, to create page turns at appropriate places in the current layout.

Procedure

Select a note or item at the rhythmic position where you want to insert a frame break.

For example, if you select a clef, the clef is placed at the end of the frame and all following notes are moved to the start of the next music frame.
Choose Edit > Frame Break.

Result

A frame break is inserted immediately before the rhythmic position of the earliest selected item. All notations after the frame break are moved to the next music frame.

Note

If you insert a frame break in the middle of a phrase in a two-bar or four-bar repeat region, Dorico Elements does not automatically move the frame break to before/after the phrase, causing it to be split across the frame break.