[Framers] preventing 2-word product name from line breaks ?

Robert Lauriston robert at lauriston.com
Wed Apr 6 15:01:54 PDT 2016


If you don't want to update all the variables, create a file
containing only the variable(s) you want to update and import that.

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Monique Semp <monique.semp at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> You can update a variable in all .fm files in a .book with a single
>> import.
>
>
> Yes, but that presupposes that you want *all* the variables from the source
> file. But in my case, I have different variables in different FrameMaker
> templates (for frontmatter, ToC, chapters), with only some variables, such
> as the doc's part number, in all the templates. So by using BookVars, I can
> easily change/add only the desired variable, to all files in the book,
> without affecting any other variables.
>
> So it depends on your setup which method is easier/quicker/applicable.
>
> (But if you're at a company that won't allow you to install such utilities,
> as is the case with John I believe, you just have to do things the manual
> way. I've been at places like that, and it's always a drag on my
> productivity. I'm happy to be working on my own system now where I can use
> any utility that I want :-).


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