If your headers and footers include titles or headings as well as the chapter number, you do need to get at least a little "fancy" with the Running H/F variables to account for the fact that different tags are often used for titles of chapters vs. prefaces vs. appendixes vs. glossaries. You at least need to know how to specify multiple tag names in a $paratext variable. Not terribly fancy, I'll admit, but it's surprising how many Frame users don't know how to do that.
My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Combs, Richard Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:22 PM To: Texan Scriber; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Disconnected Pages Texan Scriber wrote: > Does anybody know how to specify the master page to use when > the current page is filled with text? I have combined all my > master pages into one template file. After I create an > Appendix say, and the first page is filled with content, the > page that follows does not use the same master page. Fred Ridder's right: your problems stem from not using the default master pages. But I'll go further than Fred. There's no good reason not to use the exact same Left and Right master pages for almost all the files in a standard book -- certainly for all the chapters and appendixes. There's nothing "fancy" with H/F variables required, assuming you use the <$chapnum> variable for chapter/appendix numbering. You probably need different default master pages for an index (typically 2-col layout) and maybe a title-page file. And of course, the custom master page you use to start a file might have several versions -- say, First, TOCFirst, TitleFirst, whatever. But what page layout changes are required going from a chapter to an appendix, or even to frontmatter (TOC, LOF, etc.) or intro/preface? My $0.02. Richard ------ Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 ------ rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 ------
