Under-documented features... [-STOP THE DISCUSSION-]

[KWoodard at Wabtec.com]

> And about importing the variables and/or master pages from the title 
> chapter... file by file, that charming chore gets tedious really
quick.  >(Not to mention that if your variables are slightly off...
Well. even more > work.)

This is no chore at all. 

Define and set the variable in your title chapter. Then in the Book
window, select each of the files you want to have the variable in and
File -> Import -> Formats -> variable definitions -> Import.

To get the variable to show up, you will need to then update the page
layout in a 'body chapter' (for instance, you might want to add the
title to your page header). Then again from the book window, select all
of the body files you want to have the variable in and File -> Import ->
Formats -> Page Layouts -> Import.

If you define this properly in a template file, you will only have to
perform the first step (import the variable) in any subsequent project.

This is the same functionality that your 'master variable' thing does
... and it is already present as a book-level operation in FrameMaker.

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