Running Headers

[Tim J. Slager]

Steve,

I'm new to FM and inherited the set of files. I'm not sure why some of the chapters are broken up into smaller pieces, but if I can't figure out a good reason for it, I'll probably combine the chunks into full chapters for the sake of consistency. That should take care of my problem. In the mean time I can try some of the suggestions offered from this list.

Thanks, everyone. tims

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Johnson [mailto:chinaski69 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 12:17 AM
To: Tim J. Slager
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Running Headers

I'm not aware of having a variable pull a value from a different
physical file. Have you ever done that before? I expect the solution
is to use text insets rather than have one chapter split into multiple
files. One chapter should be one physical file for sanity's sake.

Alternatively, you might have to go with different variables but I
probably wouldn't go that route. (IOW, in Chapter 1, file 2, have a
variable that gets the value of ChapterTitleInvisible that is in the
file but doesn't display because it's in white text or is tagged with
conditional text.) That would be too hard to maintain.

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Tim J. Slager
<TSlager at isdcorporation.com> wrote:
> FM 7.2
> -----------
> I have running headers that reference Chapter Title on left pages and Heading 1 on right pages. Some chapters have multiple files, so they don't include a Chapter Title and sometimes not even a Heading 1.
>
> I expected that within a book the variable would pick up the referenced paragraph from an earlier file. This doesn't seem to be the case, and I now have blank headers on some pages of the final document.
>
> How do I fix this? I couldn't find an answer in my Unstructured FrameMaker 8 book, so if you know it's in there, just point me in the right direction.
>
> Thanks. tims
>
> Tim Slager | ISD Tech Pubs | 616.494.1373
>
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