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ianw64437822
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June 30, 2015
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How can I remove the .fm suffix that appears in a header using the <$chaptertitlename> variable?

  • June 30, 2015
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I want the chapter title to appear in the header, so I am using the <$chaptertitlename> tag in a running header variable show the file name. However, the file's suffix .fm also appears. How can I remove the suffix?

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    Bob_Niland
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    Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
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    July 1, 2015

    re: However, the file's suffix .fm also appears. How can I remove the suffix?

    Unless FM versions later than I've used provide some new way, you can't.

    See hack in Re: System Variables

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    FieryPantone
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    July 2, 2015

    Just out of interest, what is <$chaptertitlename> intended to deliver that <$filename> doesn't? as I said, I found the Adobe help page on variables particularly unenlightening. (and the concept the name of the title of the chapter sounds like something dreamt up by Humpty-Dumpty in "Through the Looking-glass" … but perhaps I'm just being picky)

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    FieryPantone
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    July 1, 2015

    Interesting… I thought I'd done this once with a <$shortfilename> variable, but when I check before posting :-} it seems that variable doesn't exist. The "About variables" page in the Adobe help is particularly opaque, too. I'll watch and learn.

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