Two additional solutions that avoid the potential cross-reference link problems that Shlomo points out:
* Use "old-style" paragraph-based autonumbering for chapter numbers, in combination with Volume Number and Chapter Number variables formatted as text or numbers. * Create the title text in a dedicated tagged text flow in the main information source document for the book file set, and import the flow as a text inset. The issue also suggests there's a valid case for increasing the number of book-wide variables. At 6:39 PM +0200 1/31/06, Shlomo Perets wrote: >Bernard, > >You wrote: > >>... Each file for each nation is based on the same template. In the >>template I view the master pages and in the footer/header of each page >>I place an xref to the BookName paragraph that I put into the cover. >>Then all I ever need to do is update cover.fm and update xrefs. In >>doing so I get a fully dynamic link that jumps to the cover (should I >>need that) and I also get a complete and dynamic way to update the >>title. > >But when converting the FM book to on-screen PDF, all >cross-references are converted to links (unless placed in text >insets). >Thus the header/footer of each page will have "unintentional" links >(which may even become bad links in some circumstances) -- see >http://www.microtype.com/resources/PDFBP_links.html#UnintentionalLinks >for real-life examples (Acrobat SDK documentation). -- Regards, Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices peter at knowhowpro.com