Cannot generate chapter titles using Running H/F

[eklisiewicz]

In my project, I have created a style called h1.chapter_title.

In Running H/F, I modified the Running H/F 7 variable to: <$paratext[h1.chapter_title]>

This variable was then added to my headers on L/R pages for the Chapter page layout.

My documentation target is PDF.

In the topics and in the generated PDF, instead of seeing my chapter title, I see <$paratext[h1.chapter_title]>.

I've been told this is a bug, but I am not sure, so i submitted a new bug for this. The only workaround (and it's not really a workaround, as you will see) is using one of the header variables, but in doing this, I am not guaranteed that my chapter title will display since any h1 that appears on a topic page will display instead. At least that is my understanding.

Does anyone have a solution to this short of manually adding the chapter title to header frames in page layouts? Any help is appreciated.

[Oda]

Hi,

I've got the same issue. Did you ever get an answer from Madcap ?

Thanks

[Lydia]

Note: There is a similar thread http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... 687#p98687.

The Running H/F variables are not supported in PDF output, only in Word and Framemaker. That is documented in the Flare Help.

[Lydia]

Hi, thinking about a workaround or solution: are there several chapter titles within one topic? This sounds strange for a topic based approach. If there are other h1 headings - are they really at the same level logically? Or could they be moved to h2's for consistency?

[LTinker68]

You can sort of do running H/F in PDF by using the built-in heading variables in the page layout. I haven't checked them in Flare v10 to see if they added more options, but they used to be a bit limited. For instance, you could use the variable for last h1 tag, but you couldn't specify a specific class of h1 tag. I used that option to at least identify the chapter the current page was in. There is also last h2, etc., so you can sort of do running H/F.

[Pernice]

I found a solution to a similar problem.

All my topics have a h1 title (maybe a bad idea), but in the PDF, I group these into sections so there is some structure. And I use the "Use TOC depth for heading levels" feature, with Dave Lee's workaround: http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... pth#p93872. So for example, if I had a topic called "Tools", then further topics: "Hammers", "Saws", "Chisels", I wanted headers like this:

Tools
Hammers

Tools
Saws

When you go Insert > Variable, I don't think the comments (descriptions) for the Heading variables ("Level1", "Level2", etc.) are correct; the comments describe these as:
"First h1 on page", "First h2 on page", etc.
which doesn't correspond with my output. If I use Level1, the header doesn't change when there's a new h1.

What did work for me was this header structure:
Level 1
Level 2

It seems that, at least for my setup, these variables do not pick up headings that are h1 or h2 in my topics, but that are at TOC depth 1 and 2.