Thanks for your reply, Roger. I have left FM in the office and will try your suggestion on Monday.
Regarding your doubts whether book attribute can be referenced in chapter: Yes, it does already work in book chapters, but it fails in the generated TOC. Kind regards JoH 2012/9/14 Roger Shuttleworth <shuttie27 at gmail.com>: > Hello JoH > > I suspect you should be using <$attribute[product.book]>, not product:book. > > But I'm still not sure you can transfer the value to your chapter files. I'd > be interested to know if you get it working. > > Regards, > > Roger > > > On 14/09/2012 9:48 AM, Jo H wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I'm new to this list. Sorry if you receive this message twice. >> >> But here's my question: >> >> I'm working on a structured book that includes a TOC generated by FM. >> The book structure looks like this: >> >> [book] >> product = "asdfghj" >> version = "1.5" >> --[contents] ... manualTOC.fm >> --[doc] ... chapter1.fm >> --[doc] ... chapter2.fm >> >> The running footer in all documents contains a variable with the >> following definition: >> <$attribute[product:book]> version <$attribute[version:book]> >> >> The resulting footer in chapter1.fm and chapter2.fm is "asdfghj version >> 1.5". >> The resulting footer in <contents> is just " version ", which probably >> means that FM cannot retrieve the attributes on book level. >> >> What could be wrong? Is it possible at all to refer to book attributes >> from within a generated TOC? >> >> I'm using FM 8.0p276 on Windows XP. >> >> Thanks in advance for your replies. >> JoH >> _______________________________________________ >> >> >> You are currently subscribed to framers as shuttie27 at gmail.com. >> >> Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. >> >> To unsubscribe send a blank email to >> framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com >> or visit >> http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/shuttie27%40gmail.com >> >> Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit >> http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > >
