Reply To: Does ID store date/time of last redefinition of styles and can it compare?

Flow sounds like a good idea, but not sure how it relates to what I'm wishing for here.

I had another thought/gripe/wish regarding styles and books: I want template files to be includable in books, or at least able to be tied to the book styles/swatches/masters. Perhaps a 2nd class of files within a book file: non-published. Templates, mockups, etc. Files you want to be consistent with the book in terms of styles and such, but which aren't to be part of the actual publication.

A book I'm currently working on is not completely written, so I'm getting new chapters all the time. Sometimes there's some new wrinkle in a chapter that requires a change in the design or in a style, or the addition of a new style. I want that change applied to all future chapters and all past chapters. For the past chapters, I can often achieve it by synchronizing in the book panel, but for future chapters it needs to be in the template file. To do that, I have to load styles, load master pages, etc. Again, paranoid that I'll forget to do it after some small change.

I'm still using CS3 (CS5 is here, as is a new computer to run it on, but haven't had time to set it up and move files over), so maybe I don't know that templates can be included in books now. Can they?