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1. Re: INDCS3: Starting Chapters
(Nigel_Chapman) Apr 24, 2008 2:15 AM (in response to Tomabcd)I approach this by putting all the chapters in separate files, using the book feature to collate them. If you do that, you can create a chapter template, which has the opening set up, and create each actual chapter from the template. Then you need to add it to the book, so that the page numbering will work out. You can use variables for the chapter number and so on, and synchronize all your styles and swatches between all the chapters. All you have to do is make sure that each chapter ends on a verso.
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2. Re: INDCS3: Starting Chapters
[Jongware] Apr 24, 2008 4:40 AM (in response to Tomabcd)>All you have to do is make sure that each chapter ends on a verso.
Which is an option in the Book Numbering options (also choose "Insert Blank Page" to see it and have it included in prints and exports). -
3. Re: INDCS3: Starting Chapters
Tomabcd Apr 25, 2008 10:56 AM (in response to Tomabcd)Thanks!
I hadn't looked at the book features yet, since it seemed simpler to stick with a single document. But I'll go look at it now.
I also found a way to set a paragraph style to start on the next page.
On the "Paragraph Style Options" dialog box, select "Keep Options" from the left column. Then from the "Start Paragraph" drop down select "On Next Odd Page".
That does what I originally wanted, but your way may still be better!
A follow on question: is there a way to have a separate master for the first page of a chapter? Given that I have two-page spreads, and the left hand page is from a previous chapter, I'm not sure how having one master for the first page of a chapter and another for all the other pages would work.
It just seems like if I do this as a book, the master from both of the two successive chapters will both be trying to style the left hand page (one styling the last normal left hand page of chapter one, and the next chapter trying to style the left hand page before the first page of the chapter two).
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4. Re: INDCS3: Starting Chapters
(Nigel_Chapman) Apr 26, 2008 5:54 AM (in response to Tomabcd)You can create a master that is only a single page -- it doesn't have to be a spread. Even if it is a spread, you can apply it to just one page. It will pick up the left or right page of the master according as the page you apply it to is a verso or recto.

