Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
I am updating about 50 earlier chamber scores, and most of them had
performance notes and examples on a final page after the music. I would
like to move those notes to the obverse of the title page.
Is there a way of moving/sorting pages without having to move, readjust,
and replace all the text blocks, graphics, symbols, etc., one by one?
To really have a definitive opinion on this, I should probably ask two
questions: What is your printing and binding method; are these being
printed as booklets, or being printed out as separate pages for external
binding? Second, do you have the good fortune of starting the music on
a right-hand page on any of the scores?
The simplest answer will be if you started the music on a right hand
page; in this case, leave the performance notes where they are, use a
page offset on that page only to number the page appropriately, and
alter the printing scheme so that you print the performance notes on the
proper leaf or page without otherwise changing the file.
On the other hand, if the music is on the left hand page, so that the
first page of music is on the obverse of the title page, it will be a
bit more work. First, select the block of pages containing the music in
the page layout tool, and within that block, if you used different
settings for margins on right and left hand pages, swap the settings so
that the old margin settings for left pages are the new settings for
right pages, and the old settings for right pages are the new settings
for left pages. Next, change any page number blocks defined that fall
within that group of pages, by setting the Page offset to 1. Also
change the settings of any text blocks you have set to display on left
pages only, or right pages only, changing what are now left pages to
right pages, and right pages to left pages. Do not increment the page
ranges in the text block attribute box; these are abolute numbers, and
though you are changing the number printed on each page, you are not
changing the number of the page in the file.
Finally, if you want a new page number on the obverse of the title page,
use a new text-block to define this, and adjust the page offset to that
it prints 2.
Now adjust your printing, so that on the page of leaf where you want the
performance notes, you print the page they are actually on. On the rest
of the pages, print the actual page number. for example, consider a
current 8 page file, where you have a title page, six pages of music,
and a performance notes page. To get pages numbered
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
you print
1 8 2 3 4 5 6 7.
Last step: write a narrative, non-printing text block describing how
you print the document, and assign the block to the title page. When
you next have need to print the document, you'll see the text block on
the title page describing how to print the document, but the printing
description will not itself print.
ns
The first thing I'd do
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