I'm using InDesign CS4 to lay out book projects. The new Text Variables feature in that version was such a godsend, allowing me to automatically specify running heads for sections, chapters, last level 1 subhead, all kinds of useful stuff.
Thing is, I've noticed that about 1 percent of the time, the resulting running head will be incorrect, usually reverting the previous instance of VT. So one page in chapter 3 will actually show chapter 2's title. I've tried various ways to slap InDesign into recognizing the correct variable, including reassigning the master page, but so far the only way I've been able to get the correct text variable to appear is to insert new pages, verify that they have the correct running head, then move the contents of the bad pages to the fresh pages and blow away the blank baddies.
This hasn't been a problem in larger books, where I create separate chapter files and book them. This seems to happen only in books that I create as a single file, letting InDesign change the running heads as I work through the layout.
Has anybody else seen this behavior?
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