Disconnected Pages

[Ridder, Fred]

If your headers and footers include titles or headings as well as
the chapter number, you do need to get at least a little "fancy"
with the Running H/F variables to account for the fact that 
different tags are often used for titles of chapters vs. prefaces
vs. appendixes vs. glossaries. You at least need to know 
how to specify multiple tag names in a $paratext variable. 
Not terribly fancy, I'll admit, but it's surprising how many 
Frame users don't know how to do that.

My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel.
Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com)
Intel
Parsippany, NJ
 

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From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com] On
Behalf Of Combs, Richard
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:22 PM
To: Texan Scriber; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Disconnected Pages

Texan Scriber wrote: 
 
> Does anybody know how to specify the master page to use when 
> the current page is filled with text? I have combined all my 
> master pages into one template file. After I create an 
> Appendix say, and the first page is filled with content, the 
> page that follows does not use the same master page.

Fred Ridder's right: your problems stem from not using the default
master pages. But I'll go further than Fred. There's no good reason not
to use the exact same Left and Right master pages for almost all the
files in a standard book -- certainly for all the chapters and
appendixes. There's nothing "fancy" with H/F variables required,
assuming you use the <$chapnum> variable for chapter/appendix numbering.


You probably need different default master pages for an index (typically
2-col layout) and maybe a title-page file. And of course, the custom
master page you use to start a file might have several versions -- say,
First, TOCFirst, TitleFirst, whatever. But what page layout changes are
required going from a chapter to an appendix, or even to frontmatter
(TOC, LOF, etc.) or intro/preface?

My $0.02. 

Richard


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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
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