Martin Nitsche Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 Hi, I'm new to publisher, but I really like it. I am developing the master for a book. This book has (5) sections and about 5 to 10 chapters in each section. I have a two facing pages (as normal in books) and I want to have the section name on the top of each left page and the chapter name on the top of each right page. I found the possibility to get the section name into the master as a field (described in one of the video tutorials). Great. But this is only half of the story. If I mark each chapter as a section I would need 5 different masters for each section (identically beside the text on the top left). If I mark the section as section, I can automize that, but than I am missing the chapter name on top of the right page. Is there any field for having the current TOC-Chapter name? Or does anybody has a solution for this? It should be a common topic, but I did not found a solution in the forum. Thanks for your help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
000 Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 There is currently no way to automate this (has been asked just a couple of days ago ... search for "running headers" or "running titles"). If you want to use Publisher for this, the most efficient way would be to use a placeholder like "chapter-title" on the right pages and, when the book is finished and the pagination doesn't change anymore, manually enter the chapter names (maybe with search and replace over a certain amount of pages) on each page. I'm sure you could solve it with five masters (masters can be ,stacked' onto a page by the way), but this gets very quickly very complicated and there is some danger you start confusing the masters as they look mostly identical and have to go through the book page by page anyway ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Nitsche Posted October 2, 2019 Author Share Posted October 2, 2019 Thanks, Jens, I will probably follow the idea with the search and replace, that sounds easier than my idea with the different masters. It's a pity that something simple like that does not work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 19 hours ago, Martin Nitsche said: Hi, I'm new to publisher, but I really like it. I am developing the master for a book. This book has (5) sections and about 5 to 10 chapters in each section. I have a two facing pages (as normal in books) and I want to have the section name on the top of each left page and the chapter name on the top of each right page. I found the possibility to get the section name into the master as a field (described in one of the video tutorials). Great. But this is only half of the story. If I mark each chapter as a section I would need 5 different masters for each section (identically beside the text on the top left). If I mark the section as section, I can automize that, but than I am missing the chapter name on top of the right page. Is there any field for having the current TOC-Chapter name? Or does anybody has a solution for this? It should be a common topic, but I did not found a solution in the forum. Thanks for your help! You may find it easier to have one Master Page with everything except the section names and then have five masters with only the section names. You can then either apply the section masters one at a time or all of them and just turn off the wrong four. Your Chapter names would then be the <sections> in the whole document. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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