I agree with Richard. The three things that I make sure are consistent
through the book are: variables, conditional text settings and cross
reference formats. When updating a book, or converting an existing book
to apply to another similar product, I open the title page file,
updatethe 3 above-mentioned items, and then import these settings to the
rest of the book.
Setting up the master pages with the variable(s) can take time the first
time, but it saves a lot of time after that.
Combs, Richard wrote, on 26/03/2013 10:31 a.m.:
Matt Sullivan wrote:
Perhaps the most elegant way to use the variables method is to save the
definitions as a MIF fragment and eliminate any chance of mucking anything
else in your files.
I refer to "Using MIF Fragments to Update Catalog Settings" on p. 581 of my
book whenever I need to do this.
Aw, you're just showing off. ;-)
This is never an issue for me. For any given book, all variables have the same
definition. I modify variable definitions only in the title page file, from
which I import them to all the other files in the book.
Except on the rare occasions that I'm doing major template updates, the first
thing I do in the Import Formats dialog box is click Deselect All. So long as I
don't go berserk and abandon that long-standing process, mucking up anything
else just isn't an issue for me.
Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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