Our template is an FM book that includes sample files for all parts of a manual (front cover, TOC, Preface, chapters, appendixes, glossary, index, and back cover). The page layouts are different for the TOC, glossary and index, and they have their own master pages, but the reference pages are the same in all files. All of the paratags, chartags, etc are the same in all files. We include a set of user variables but writers can add more as needed. We decided to put them all together because it seems easier to update and distribute one template than several.
Diane Gaskill Hitachi Data Systems ========================== -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Nancy Allison Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 10:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Template organization Hey, folks. What is your standard for organizing your template? Do you have all ref pages, master pages, para tags, character tags, variable definitions, etc., etc., represented identically in every file of your template? It easiest to update every file in a book with every formatting element, rather than try to remember that the Index file has unique elements, so does the TOC, the appendixes have different variable definitions from the chapters, etc., etc. The only gotcha I can think of is that sometimes I manually fiddle with header and footer settings for the oddball chapters (Index, TOC, List of Figures, etc., etc.) If I copied "Page Layouts" from my Index to all other files, would they all end up with "Index" manually typed into the footer, for example? What do you do? _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [email protected]. Send list messages to [email protected]. To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/dgcaller%40earthlink.net Send administrative questions to [email protected]. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [email protected]. Send list messages to [email protected]. To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [email protected]. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
