Layouts in Dorico (Steinberg)

Layouts define how music for one or more players in one or more flows is
presented, including page size, margins, staff size, etc.

Layouts combine musical content that is represented by flows with rules for page
layout and music engraving. You can have layouts for one or more players drawn
from one or more flows. You can use the layouts to produce paginated music
notation that can be printed or exported in various formats.

A typical project for an ensemble of multiple players will contain several layouts.
For example, a work for string quartet in three movements contains four solo
players two violins, one viola, and one cello and three flows, one for each
movement. Such a project may require five layouts:

Four layouts each containing the music from all three flows for one of the solo
players, that is, the individual instrumental parts

One layout containing the music from all three flows and all four players, that is,
the full score

Each layout provides independent control over practically every aspect of the
visual appearance of the music, including independent staff size, note spacing, and
system formatting.

Each layout may also have independent page layout properties, such as page size,
margins, running headers, and footers. These can be defined as master pages and
then be applied freely to left- or right-hand pages or to specific pages in a layout,
for example, the first or last page. Flow frames define where music appears on
each page. To each flow frame, one or more flows is assigned in a manner
analogous to how flows of text are assigned to text frames in desktop publishing
applications. Dorico also provides for text frames, which allow the presentation of
blocks of text, such as prefatory material, critical commentary, block lyrics, and so
on.

Note:
The page layout features of Dorico allow you to have multiple flow frames and text
frames on the same page. This enables you to combine music from multiple flows
on the same page.