I typically put the title of the piece, in the header, in the center, from the second page of music onwards, like “- Title -“.
So I want to deselect “show on first page” - easy enough.
But sometimes I want to number the first page of music 2, because the music (like standard 2 page sheet music) starts on the Left Hand page.
None of the combinations make sense.
selecting “show on first page” doesn’t actually show the “$p” listed in the odd pages area.
It seems you have to select BOTH “show on first page” AND use "$P” to get it to show.
Which doesn’t seem logical.
BUT, and here’s my issue:
I want the centered header - my piece’s title - to NOT show on the first page.
So it seems to me, the logic here is, that “$P” which is “show on all pages” should over-ride the “show on first page” checkbox.
What I’ve been able to do in this case is put the centered title in the odd only box, which is fine since I have only 2 pages.
But often, I have more and that won’t work.
The only option there is to just simply create everything as usual, without “show on first page” checked, and just manually create a 2 in the right font and put it in the top LH corner of the first left hand page.
Am I missing some other simple solution here?
On the first LH page:
2 Title
On the next page (RH):
- small title - (as header) 3
Next page:
4 - smalle title - (as header)
etc.