🚀 go-pugleaf

> I have a very large chapter which I have had to create as two files
> in order to be able to load it in FrameMaker 6.

This sounds like you are embedding graphics instead of referencing them.
If so, is there any particular reason for doing this?
Is there some other reason for the large file size? Do you perhaps
have the Preference "Save FrameImage..." turned on?

> Unfortunately I don't see how I can get the chapter number and chapter
> name variables to carry across for the header. Any ideas? 

If you really are using variables for this, it shouldn't be a problem.
You can control the value of <$chapnum> from the book level to not
increment for the second file.
If you are referring to the Running H/F variables used for getting
the chapter title to appear correctly in the page header or footer,
you cannot define them to pick up text from another file. You could
either create invisible "dummy" paragraphs cross-referencing the
chapter title from the first file, or replace the variables with
cross-references directly.


-- 
/Thomas Michanek, FrameMaker/UNIX/MIF expert
mailto:Thomas.Michanek@telia.com
http://go.to/framers/