On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Andersen, Verner Engell VEA wrote:
All my FM book files contain all master pages, all variables, all
reference pages etc. This means that if you accidentially copy formats
from one file to anoter nothing will go wrong.
My edition number in the footer is simply a global variable. Now the QA
Department wants each chapter to have an editon number according to when
changes were made. This means that some chapters have edition k, others
edition l and so forth.
Have you any idea of how I can have the various edition numbers in
footer of each chapter page and still have the possibility of importing
all formats from all files without messing things up?
I routinely use what I call a "reference" or "resource" file. It's not
part of the printed book, but other files cross-reference to this file for
various bits of info, such as version info, part #, etc.
You could list your edition info for each chapter in such an external
file, then in each chapter doc xref to this reference doc to pick up the
appropriate info for the footer. If something changes, you simply make a
content change in the ref doc and regen the book, rather than copying
formats around.
Doesn't take too much to set it up, and I always had more confidence in
this approach rather than copying vars around because as you noted above,
it's easy to break something by copying formats.
Frank
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