Am Donnerstag, 27. September 2007 14:01 schrieb Dr. Werner Popken: > Did I understand ocrrectly: Master pages cannot contain elements with > different content on different pages except page numbers?
No you didn't understand correctly. A master page can contain the same elements as a normal page. The difference is you can't edit items on master page once you applied the master page to a normal page. > > If so, how can I apply a "master layout" to include ever the same text > frames (left/right) on a page? Do I miss something here? To rest > assured, I spent an hour or so skimming through the documents, > experimenting, trying to find out, Googling, ... As far as I can see, > you can only place text frames automatically when creating a new > document. Is this correct? Yes and no. If you're working with 1.3.4 (which I wouldn't recommend), you may want to explore the possibilities of "Insert > Frame". > > Also: If I want to have a header line showing the chapter title left > and the section title right, for example (which is something common in > book layout, LaTex can do this easily), I understand that this has to > be done manually on each page (maybe copied and pasted, using the > scrapbook) or else a Python script has to be set up doing this for me, > right? Or by defining lots of master pages by way of duplication, the > first one having page numbers only, then one with a header for the > first chapter, the next one for the second chapter and so on, data > changing with each page to be still added manually? Why would you want to change each page of a chapter? One left and one right page for each chapter, including page numbers, are sufficient. > > Or is the scrapbook the tool to perform these repeating actions like > placing text frames and placing a text frame and an image frame > within? If so, is there a trick to place them exactly instead of > pushing them around or correcting data via keybord in the properties > page? No, master pages ;) HTH Christoph
