RE: Frame Header/Footer question

[Fred Ridder <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Meryl Cohen wrote:
 
> We are defining footers for our Frame template. One element we want is the
> book title. We can get this by using a variable, or by typing the name of
> the book manually in the appropriate places on the Master pages. However,
> what would be good is if we could pull the text of the BookTitle tag, used
> only in the cover page file. We get the Chapter title in this way, but this
> is obviously local to each file within the book.
 
Some people use a cross-reference to accomplish this, but I've always
thought that was overkill. In addition, I always hated seeing PDFs that 
had a hyperlink on the bottom (or top) of every page that would take 
the reader to a really non-useful place (the title page).
 
My own preference has always been to define the book title (and its
reference ID number, and the revision number, and the publication date)
as variables in the title page file and then simply import the variable 
definitions to all the files in the book. Among other advantages, this 
approach makes it very easy to share chapter files among multiple 
books because there is nothing "hard coded" in any chapter file that 
links it to only one specific book (which would be the case if I were 
to insert the book title as a cross-reference to the title paragraph in
one specific title page file). 
 
-Fred Ridder
 
 
 
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