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To add to Van's response, the running H/F variables used on master pages can also refer to attribute values. The building block <$attribute[attrname]> pulls in the value of an attribute named "attrname" regardless of the element on which it occurs. If you want the value of an attribute of an element of a particular type, follow the attribute name with a colon and the element tag. For example, <$attribute[status:chapter]> retrieves the value of the status attribute of the first chapter element on the page.



In unstructured documents, Header/Footer markers are the only way to enter text on a body page that is to appear in a header or footer even though it does not appear as the sole text in a paragraph. FrameMaker provides only two such marker types ("Header/Footer $1" and "Header/Footer $2") and, as you have encountered, there are documents where it would be helpful if there were more. In structured documents, though, you can use empty elements with attributes for the same purpose. Since the elements are empty, they need not affect the formatting of the content of the body pages, but using the building block mentioned above, you can insert text from their attributes into running headers and footers.

--Lynne