Variables in inset files viewed through container file

[Shlomo Perets]

Whitney,

You wrote:

...
>Inset file has <$filename> variable.
>
>Container file imports by reference.
>
>With "Retain Source's Formatting" the file name shown through the container
>is the name of the inset. Good. I want this file name to appear as-is.
>
>With "Reformat Using Current Document's Formats" the file name shown through
>the container is the name of the container file. Nope. I want this format
>control, but not that content, that file name. It's the name of the inset
>that I want to be visible.
>
>Doesn't look like a "format" difference, at least not in the visual sense.
>
>How do I make the inset file name from its <$filename> variable to appear
>through "Reformat Using Current Document's Formats" in the container file?
>Without structured FM? Without script? (Can consider both; looking cheaply
>first.)
...

"Use current document's formatting" applies to formats, including variables 
(both user and system variables).
To identify the inset in the container, the file name would have to be 
typed text, not a file name variable.

If you switch to "Retain Source's Formatting", you may create a utility 
book of all insets, and then use import formats to update formats in all 
insets.


Shlomo Perets

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