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

[Jay Smith <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If I am correctly understanding the questions and answers, we have had
similar problems.

We prefer to use a SINGLE template document for the source of all tags &
formats for an entire series of books.

However, we needed a couple of bits of information to appear in the
headers/footers of the individual pages: the particular book's title and
the particular book's edition number.

The only way that we could find to accomplish this was to create
separate "sets" of master pages for each book in the series.  All such
"sets" are in the template.  That means that if there are 10 books in
the series, there can easily be as many as 40+ master pages.  

However, once the properly named master pages are applied to each
specific book, then everything works fine.

Are doing this the hard way?  Any other suggestions?

Jay


Thomas Michanek wrote:
> 
> From: sgreenw2@csc.com <sgreenw2@csc.com>
> >The first file in each book we create is the Title Page and it provides the name
> >of the manual. Each right page in the book has a Footer with the name of the
> >book. The footer was set up as a USER Variable so that if the same member was
> >being used in two different books, the Footer could be changed to the correct
> >manual name using the appropriate USER Variable.
> >The problem is when you are using a file in more than one book, the USER
> >Variable has to be changed.  Is there any way to connect the Footer to the Title
> >Page to pull the name of the manual.  This way, the variables will not have to
> >be changed.  Let me know if you have a fix.
> 
> Unless I misunderstand you, couldn't you simply make the name of the book
> on the right-hand master page a Cross-reference to the name of the book
> in the Title Page? You may need to change the structure of your Title Page
> so that the name of the book is put in a single paragraph. If you don't
> want the name of the book visible in the Title Page, make it a paragraph
> with 2-point white text (or something similar).
> 
> Of course, if the file name of the Title Page file varies from book to book,
> you'll have the same type of problem when a file is present in more than
> one book. Perhaps you can make sure that the file name of the Title Page
> file is always the same for all books?
> 
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