Variables based on paragraph tags at the book level?

[Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain@aeris.net)]

> Jason Nichols wrote:
> > For example, it'd be nice if I could define – in the footer of each 
> > chapter in a book – the Running H/F variables to pull in the document 
> > title, product name, and version number based on what appears on the 
> > book's title page (based on paragraph tags that are used only in the 
> > title page file).
> >
> > Or, is the only way to set up those kinds of book-wide variables to 
> > define our own variables in one file and import them to all the other 
> > files in the book?

Richard Combs wrote:
> Document titles, product names, and version numbers are exactly the sorts of things for which you should define user variables. 
> And use them not just in the footer, but on the title page and throughout. When marketing decides to change the product name, you'll be glad it's a variable. :-)

And, then, please get BookVars from Leximation - the most used utility in my FrameMaker setup - to manage the variables far more easily! Then you can maintain the variables in an external text file (editable through the BookVars menu items too) for use with all the FM file in the book.

Z