RE: Title of Book (appearing in headers/footers)

[Dan Emory <danemory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The problem, as I understand it, is that the original poster has multiple
books, each one differentiated (at the least) by a title page file, with
many of the chapters are used in more than one book. The book title and rev
number must appear in the running header of the chapter files. Unless I'm
missing something, the solutions I've seen in response to the original post
seem to ignore the simplest way to solve this dilemma, as follows:

1. Use variables for the title and revision number (and any other
book-title-dependent text that must also appear in the chapter files). These
variables will always be correct in the title page file, because they are
used to create the title, rev number, etc. in the text of the title page.
These variables are also included in the chapter files.

2. Insert these variables at the appropriate positions in the header/footer
text frames on the master pages. (It doesn't matter what the current value
of the variables are).

3. To prepare a book for output, open its title page file. Then, with input
focus in the book file, choose File > Import > Formats. In the Import
Formats dialog, choose the title page file as the import source, turn off
everything but Variable Definitions, move all of the affected files into the
Import list, and click the Import button. This will update the variable
definitions in all of the selected files so that they have the values that
were established in the title page file.
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Note that this solution is effective even when chapters don't appear in
multiple book files. If the variables in the title page file have the
correct values, those values can be propagated to every other file in the
book. Thus, if something must be changed in the book title page, it is done
by changing the corresponding variable definition, and then reimporting the
new values from the title page file into the other files of the book.
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