Pinning text to a mater page

[britt_tt]

I would love the ability to pin text to a specific master page.

I am often using Affinity publisher for typesets that are very large documents. Inevitably I will make an adjustment to a page early in the typeset or even adjust the margins for the document after all the text and master pages have been set and this change then shifts the correct text from the master page I intended it to be with. Then I have to go back and remove then reapply every master page for chapter starts and often something wacky happens with the formatting in the shift. It's super frustrating. I love that all the text shifts if I add or delete things adding on pages as needed, but I would really really appreciate if I could keep certain master pages pinned/attached to a specific word much like you pin images to reduce this frustration and time suck. 

[Oufti]

40 minutes ago, britt_tt said:

I have to go back and remove then reapply every master page for chapter starts

If you make a new story for each chapter, you can apply a different master page for the first page/spread of the story (i.e. the new chapter) so it won't shift if you add text in the story before. 

Not exactly what you asked but I found that useful though. 

[Old Bruce]

I think what you are wanting/needing is to be able to set a Master Page if a particular Paragraph Style is on a given random Actual Page. So your Chapter Head Paragraph style would result in your Chapter Start Master Page being applied, most likely also clearing the other pages. This has been requested before and would be quite useful.

I am not sure how the shifting of text containing the Chapter Start Master page would handle the Chapter Head being moved ahead or later in the flow, would we need to assign each master page to a Paragraph Style? Easy enough for me to think of a solution to our problem, difficult for me to consider all the knock on effects that will occur.

[britt_tt]

2 hours ago, Oufti said:

If you make a new story for each chapter, you can apply a different master page for the first page/spread of the story (i.e. the new chapter) so it won't shift if you add text in the story before. 

Not exactly what you asked but I found that useful though. 

I'm not following what you mean "make a new story for each chapter". Do you mean the linking of the text boxes? So each chapter text is separate from each other? I have tried that and it helps a little bit, but not completely.

[MikeTO]

1 hour ago, britt_tt said:

I'm not following what you mean "make a new story for each chapter". Do you mean the linking of the text boxes? So each chapter text is separate from each other? I have tried that and it helps a little bit, but not completely.

Hi and welcome to the forums. I second (third?) the suggestion to separate your chapters into separate stories. A story is the text in a series of linked frames. And then as suggested above you can use a different master page for the first page of each chapter.

I described this scenario in the Books chapter of the free Publisher manual I've shared in this forum.

Cheers,

Mike

[britt_tt]

Thanks @MikeTO! I understand the separate stories suggestion now and your guide is a really great resource. I appreciate you chiming in!