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• • September 25, 2010 at 4:44 pm #57124
    Anonymous

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    Hi,

    On a Master Page, I have defined Running Header linked to my Header 1 Paragraph Style, so the title of each chapter appears at the top. Fine.

    Now one chapter title has a superscript letter, with a Character Style, and oviously this superscript letter should also appear in the Running Header. However, it does not.

    I tried overriding the Master Page, but it does not work.

    Anyone an idea?

  • September 26, 2010 at 9:36 am #57126
    Theunis De Jong

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    It doesn't work like that. The Running Header variable picks up the plain text from the style (paragraph or character), all formatting gets lost.

    (Somewhere in my long, long wish list is that Character styles optionally could get picked up.)

    Check the glyphs list for the font you're using: if you are in luck, you can insert that character immediately as a superscript one in the chapter title. It depends on the font; not all fonts come with all (or even some) pre-drawn superscript characters.

    If not, you'll have to use the Old Skool method, pre-variables-style: copy the master page, put the running header in the any way you like, then apply this master page for that particular chapter only. For the rest, you can use your automated headers.

  • September 27, 2010 at 6:43 am #57142
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    The font does not come with the particular character, but applying a duplicated spread worked perfectly.

    Excellent tip, thank you!

  • September 27, 2010 at 7:14 am #57143
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    In the past I've created running heads based on Character Styles.

    I then GREP style the Running Head on the master pages, based on the text.

    For example – in the main text I may have

    What's up with Co2 (where o is subscript)

    I would create a nested style for the subscript of the o in Co2

    This gives the “o” a character style

    The rest of the heading needs a Style too – so I would give it a character style of RunHeadChar

    Then my running head for this page would be based on Character Styles

    Where I'd have

    <RunHeadNormal><RunCharSub><RunHeadNormal>

    This then allows me to have an automated system in updating the running heads.

  • September 27, 2010 at 11:33 am #57147
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    As Harbs would no doubt point out: Power Headers from In-tools.com can also do this automatically (it's more powerful than InDesign's built-in header features).

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