RE: TOC Continued Master Page question

[Peter Gold <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Richard:

No argument here!

Once you know the HOW, it's a matter of preference which work flow is most 
efficient to maintain, for you and your team.

Your "3" approach, separate templates, is a fine solution but does require 
maintenance of separate templates for each document type.

Applying master pages based on the presence of paragraph tags is also a 
fine solution, and probably can be developed to use a single template for a 
book file set comprised of different document types and the unique 
paragraph tags that they contain, such as *TOC, *IX, etc.

Both require some development work, testing, a standard set of procedures 
to make them deliver their quality results, and a set of procedures to 
update and maintain them.

Peter

At 12:13 PM 7/19/2004, Combs, Richard wrote:
> 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

Regards,

Peter Gold
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