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?
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...).
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:
B1 Body First
BC Body Continued
S1 Step First
SX Step Example
SI Step Image
SS1 Substep First
SSE Substep Example
...
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.
I miss making templates.... :(
HTH;
David
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Question about formats for files in book
From: Theresa de Valence <t...@bstw.com>
Date: Fri, May 30, 2014 10:46 am
To: "framers@lists.frameusers.com" <framers@lists.frameusers.com>
Hi Framers,
Perhaps this is a philosophical question but it has been my habit to
make a book with ONE master page set and ONE paragraph catalogue and ONE
character catalogue. Over the course of building the document, I import
changes into other files in the same book.
Somehow, I had the idea that this was the way it was done.
With the Frame 12 templates created by Bernard Aschwanden, it seems that
each template second has only those paragraph and character catalogues
as are required for that section (e.g. Cover, Legal and Contacts). Of
course, I might not be quite understanding what's going on yet...
What are your ideas?
_______________________________________________
You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
