RE: TOC Continued Master Page question

["Combs, Richard" <richard.combs@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Gold wrote: 

> Barbara's suggestion has the risk of having different layouts 
> for master 
> pages with the names Right and Left. Importing formats from a master 
> template file to all files in the book would reset the 
> specially-formatted 
> pages you've created for the TOC.

True, there is a "risk" -- but there are also advantages to having
different default master pages. 

For FM6, you only have these options: 

1) Use the same default Right and Left master pages for all files in the
book. I suppose you can make this work for some cases, but I can't /
don't want to. The index is especially problematic -- do you do a
one-column index? Or manually change it to two columns after applying
the template? Ugh. 

2) Use one template, but define file-specific master pages (FrontLeft,
FrontRight, IXLeft, IXRight,...). Then, apply those custom master pages
as needed, either manually or using the Master Page Tools plug-in
(www.siliconprariesoftware.com). The drawback here is that FM won't
delete extra pages that have custom master pages applied. 

3) Use separate templates, each with their own default master pages, for
chapters, frontmatter (TOC, LOF, LOT,...), and index. This has been my
preferred solution. 

I also have different pgf catalogs for frontmatter/index files (I don't
want all those generated tags cluttering up the catalog in my chapter
files), so using separate templates and being careful about what I
import from where are second nature. :-) 

Richard


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