Mark Oehlschlager Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 I'm setting up a Publisher document for a book that is structured in Parts and Chapters. The interior design is such that the part titles appear as running heads on the verso pages, and the chapter titles appear as running heads on the recto pages. The question is this: what is the best way to set this up with master pages in Publisher? One solution I have considered is to create separate master page spreads for each book Part, where the part title is set manually on the master verso page, and the chapter title is set as a dynamic section field on the master recto page. In that case, I would use the Section Manager to create sections for each chapter in the book, supplying the chapter title to the Section Name field in the Section Manager. The above solution can be made to work, but is there a way to create a user defined field for the Part title? If so, I wouldn't have to create separate master page spreads for each book Part. I could just insert my custom Part Title field on the verso page of a single master page spread. Quote
Staff Lee D Posted December 16, 2020 Staff Posted December 16, 2020 Your existing solution using the section name and section manager I believe is the best workflow at the moment. Having the ability to create custom fields is a requested feature and may be something added in a future update. sfriedberg and Mark Oehlschlager 1 1 Quote
Lee Sheppard Posted December 1, 2021 Posted December 1, 2021 Please, please add support for running titles. For me as a book editor this is a major flaw. I need to be able to see the chapter name on each right-hand page at the top. This is pretty fundamental when preparing books for print. Thanks Mark Oehlschlager 1 Quote
Old Bruce Posted December 1, 2021 Posted December 1, 2021 Hi and welcome to the forums @Lee Sheppard, It is doable. You use the Section manager to set the name for the section to "Chapter Whatever" and then use the Section Field to hold that on the Master Page. I do so all the time. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
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