[Framers] Best Practice for Master Page Variables for Appendices?

Doug dbailey4117 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 17 05:57:58 PDT 2018


I use Running H/F 1 for my footer text in the chapters, and Running
H/F 2 for the footer text in my appendices.

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 8:31 AM, Caroline Tabach
<caroline.tabach at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to work out the best way to do this
>
> I have a book with chapter files and appendix files.
>
>
> The header uses the following format
>
>
> Chapter 9: Running H/F 1 - when Chapter is a variable with
> Chapter<$chapnum>  Running H/F1 is a variable variable
> with<$paratext[Heading1]>
>
>
> For the appendix chapters instead of the tag Heading1 I can use a tag
> called AppHeading1
>
> This works very well for me in the Table of Contents (I want the word
> Appendix/Chapter to appear as relevant) and is controlled with the
> reference page.
>
> However, in this case I need to use different variables for the headers.
> So that it will say Appendix A: Writing a book etc  (using AppHeading1
> instead of Heading1) and the correct variable so it will say Appendix
> <$chapnum>
>
> What is the best practice for all this, and for setting up Master pages.?
>
> If I use different variables, either I paste in the different set of
> variables manually on my regular "Right" master page, or make a special
> master page called Appendix which must be applied as a custom master page
>
> What is the best practice to make everything work well, if you are have a
> book with appendices and regular chapters
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Caroline Tabach
> Technical/Marcom Writer
> e-mail: caroline.tabach at gmail.com
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