RE: Automating the application of Master Pages
Thanks for the responses - I'm just back from the long UK holiday weekend. It had never occurred to me that having all master pages defined in a single template (I inherited it some years ago and have added to it occasionally, but have never had to set a template up from scratch) could be disadvantageous so it was interesting to look at it in that light. I see that if I separated the various custom master pages into appropriate templates, defining the standard Left and Right pages in each template accordingly, I would get Apply Master Pages to work. Rick also pointed out about the benefit of this approach regarding deletion of blank master pages on save and correct application of master pages for new content. And yet, my instinct is still to keep the master pages together - resistance to change, I suppose, and the knowledge that there is just a single template to maintain. Coincidentally, this Apply Master Pages issue arose in the first place because I used to have a separate template for landscape chapters, but now I need to cater for the possibility of mixed portrait and landscape pages in the same chapter, so I thought it would be sensible to bring the landscape pages into the standard template and save having to think about separate templates, and then I thought that whilst I was at it I'd take a look at Apply Master Pages. Turns out perhaps I should have been heading the other way all along! I'll mull over all this for the future rather than leap in straight away with a few new templates as it wasn't a big deal to do the master pages manually. But I now know more about custom master pages which is really useful, so thank you. Alexandra Wilowska ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Automating the application of Master Pages
At 23:53 +0200 4/5/07, Michael Müller-Hillebrand wrote: So for a TOC you could define rules for the (unique) TOC paragraph formats to switch to the custom masterpages in single page mode. This is true, and your approach is valid. However, it is perhaps a special case, particularly as the original poster, Alexandra Wilowska, is using unstructured FrameMaker, making this solution inaccessible to her. It would be interesting to see if a consensus of 'best practise' appears over master page maintenance for books. It is a parallel argument to the one about maintaining paragraph and character tags per-document vs. book-wide - another issue I can never really decide on myself. -- Steve ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Automating the application of Master Pages
At 11:08 +0100 4/5/07, Alexandra Wilowska wrote: I would like to set things up so as to: map Preface Heading para to the Preface First master page, then for each subsequent left/right page apply Preface Left or Preface Right, until a Chapter Heading para is encountered, whereupon map that para to a Chapter First master page, apply it and apply subsequent Chapter Left and Right pages etc. I have the same issue with appendices, but you get the idea. As you have found you, automatic mater pages map to para tags. Leaving aside the SP tool, which is about the only one of their products I don't yet use, you have two choices: . Create unique tags wherever you need unique pages (bad) . Set up the left/right master pages to be specific to book sections (better) I don't personally like the idea of keeping every master page in every book section, but it does get around the danger of importing the wrong master pages by accident. This whole area is even more of a problem when you are trying to set up a structured FrameMaker book for round-tripping, but fortunately that's an issue you don't have to contend with. I'd be interested to hear if higher-kyu FrameMaker masters than a mere blue belt like me have any more elegant or ingenious methods. -- Steve ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
