2020

DOCUMENT CONSTRUCTION
Working with nonsectioned chapters
If chapters do not have sections, QuarkXPress creates a “book chapter start” for the
first page of each chapter. A book chapter start tells a chapter to begin its page
numbering after the last page of the previous chapter. To override a book chapter
start and create a section, open the chapter and choose Page > Section. When you
add pages to a chapter, reorder chapters, or remove chapters, subsequent pages and
chapters will be numbered according to this section start.
For output chapter pages to accurately reflect the page numbering of the book, page
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numbers should be placed using the Current Page Number character.
Any user who opens a book can add, reorder, and delete chapters. The user can also
add sections to chapters to override the sequential page numbering or synchronize
chapters. You may want to assign these tasks to one user (such as the editor) and ask
other users to simply open and close chapters through the palette.
If you open a chapter outside of its associated QuarkXPress book (meaning that you
didn’t use the Book palette to open it), the page numbers may temporarily change.
If the chapter contains book chapter starts, which automatically update page
numbers across chapters, then the chapter will begin on page number 1 while you
are editing outside the book. When you reopen the chapter using the Book palette,
the page numbers will automatically update. If the chapter contains regular section
starts, then the page numbers will not be affected when editing outside the book.
Synchronizing chapters
To ensure that all the style sheets, colors, hyphenation and justification
specifications, lists, and dashes and stripes used in book chapters are the same, you
can synchronize these specifications to match those in a master chapter. By default,
the first chapter in the book is the master chapter, but you can change the master
chapter at any time.
When you synchronize chapters, all the specifications in each chapter are compared
to the master chapter and modified as necessary. After you synchronize chapters,
each chapter in the book will have the same style sheets, colors, hyphenation and
justification specifications, lists, and dashes and stripes as the master chapter.
Specifying the master chapter
By default, the first chapter you add to a book is the master chapter. The master
chapter is indicated by an M to the left of the chapter name in the Book palette. To
change the master chapter, click to select the new master chapter. Then click the
blank area to the left of the chapter name; the master chapter icon M moves to the
new chapter.
Synchronizing specifications
Before you synchronize the specifications in a book, first make sure that the style
sheets, colors, hyphenation and justification specifications, lists, and dashes and
stripes in the current master chapter are defined correctly. Then:
Make sure all the chapters in the book have a status of Available. If a chapter is
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unavailable, its specifications will not be synchronized.
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