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.
Tacets
Tacet is the indication used to show that a player does not play anything in an entire flow, which might be a movement in a symphony or cue in a film score. In Dorico for iPad, you can generate tacets automatically.
Editing tacet text
You can change the text shown in tacets in each layout independently.

Editing tacet text

You can change the text shown in tacets in each layout independently.

Procedure

Open Layout Options in any of the following ways:
- Press Cmd-Shift-L.
- In the toolbar, click Application Menu and choose Layout Options.
In the Layouts list, select the layouts whose tacet text you want to edit.

By default, the layout currently open in the music area is selected when you open the dialog. You can select other layouts by using the selection options in the action bar or by clicking and dragging across multiple layouts.
Click Players in the category list.
In the Tacets section, enter the text you want in the Tacet text field.
Click Apply, then Close.

The text shown in all tacets in the selected layouts is changed.