Under-documented features... What fun!

[Art Campbell]

And another, perhaps easier way to do it, is to type the title on the
cover page and embed a cross-reference to that tag in each following
header/footer....

Art

On 6/28/07, Debbi Correia <debbi.fortney at verizon.net> wrote:
> Hi John,
> Once you change the variables in the Title file, you need to import the
> Variable Definitions into all files in the book (let me know if you need
> instructions on how to do that). That's it! You can't use the building
> block <$paratext[Cover]> because that will only pull from the current
> file.
>
> Deb Correia
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-framers at omsys.com
> > [mailto:owner-framers at omsys.com] On Behalf Of John Milligan
> > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 11:40 AM
> > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com; framers at omsys.com
> > Subject: Under-documented features... What fun!
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello all:
> >
> > Need some help. Looked in UG, OLH and even queried Adobe's
> > support-site KB. No luck.  So, I appeal to my fellow users
> > for assistance.
> >
> >
> > This is about displaying the book title (of a multi-file
> > book) that should be captured from the front/title file, in
> > every pagetop header in the remaining chapter files.  Can't
> > get it to work, but I suspect it can.
> >
> > 1) the "Title" file utilizes two variables (Doc Title and Doc
> > Type) that provide the product name and the book title. They
> > are uniquely para-formatted as "Cover" and "Cover2".
> >
> > 2) I swapped the "definition" text in each variable with the
> > actual info.  So the variable definition [Document Title] is
> > now "Fabulous User Guide"
> >
> > 3) Each succeeding chapter file has two header variables (not
> > based on one of the "header/footer" variables) that contain
> > the variable definitions from the "Title" file.  Moving from
> > Master Page view to Body Page view, I see the "definition"
> > placeholder text, but  no pick-up from the actual
> > "re-definition" I applied to the variables in the "Title" file.
> >
> > 4) When I update the book, the in-file Variable Definition
> > placeholder text reappears unaltered, and F-M doesn't swap in
> > the replacement from the "Title" file.
> >
> > 5) So, I replaced the chapter files' variable with
> > "<$paratext[Cover]>", thinking that maybe F-M will load all
> > the pagetop variables with the para-formatted text, the actual text.
> >
> > No good. So now I'm stuck.
> >
> > Help! Please...  Save me from Adobe's extortionate
> > support-package pricing!
> >
> > -- John Milligan
> >
> >
> >
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