<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>Personally, I prefer global MPs, RPs, and catalogs. Trying to keep styles separated is a mugs game, especially if you are tasked to change (for example) the baseline body or procedure styles' fonts or what-not. Doing it all in one file and Importing Formats across the whole document set is a lot faster than doing it in X different files and carefully applying selectively. Sure, you might make your files a tad bulkier than necessary (especially if you have a lot of Ref Pages or your book style uses tons of Master Pages), but storage is all-but free these days, so who cares?</div><div><br></div><div>Also, it makes it easier to see what you've got going, structurally--for example, enforcing a consistent style-naming convention (ahh... I remember those halcyon days...).</div><div><br></div><div>Pro Tip: preface manually applied style names with a two- or three-letter code, so that F8 and F9 can be used very quickly. Examples:</div><div>B1 Body First</div><div>BC Body Continued</div><div>S1 Step First</div><div>SX Step Example</div><div>SI Step Image</div><div>SS1 Substep First</div><div>SSE Substep Example</div><div>...</div><div><br></div><div>Also, you'll thank yourself if you align your style names as closely to DITA XML (or S1000 or whatever applies in your industry), for later migration and for (mild) structure enforcement.</div><div><br></div><div>I miss making templates.... :(</div><div>HTH;</div><div>David</div>
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Subject: Question about formats for files in book<br>
From: Theresa de Valence <<a href="mailto:TdeV@bstw.com">TdeV@bstw.com</a>><br>
Date: Fri, May 30, 2014 10:46 am<br>
To: "<a href="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com">framers@lists.frameusers.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com">framers@lists.frameusers.com</a>><br>
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Hi Framers,<br>
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Perhaps this is a philosophical question but it has been my habit to <br>
make a book with ONE master page set and ONE paragraph catalogue and ONE <br>
character catalogue. Over the course of building the document, I import <br>
changes into other files in the same book.<br>
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Somehow, I had the idea that this was the way it was done.<br>
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With the Frame 12 templates created by Bernard Aschwanden, it seems that <br>
each template second has only those paragraph and character catalogues <br>
as are required for that section (e.g. Cover, Legal and Contacts). Of <br>
course, I might not be quite understanding what's going on yet...<br>
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What are your ideas?<br>
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