Use a variable as a definition within another variable

What I do is set up what I call a "settings file" that has all the variable definitions and conditions needed for a particular output. 

So in your case, set up a variable for the month and create two settings files, one with the English word and one with the French, then import as needed.

Variables are easy to work with programmatically, so there may be some clever ways to do this via scripting. If you want to explore this, please contact me off list. If we come up with some ideas, I will post them to the forums so others can benefit. rick at frameexpert dot com

No. You cannot insert variables in variables. You have to split your text into distinct variables.

You might add a feature request in the Adobe Tracker: https://tracker.adobe.com/

When you want French months, then apply French as paragraph language.

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No. It's often been wished for, however.
There may be other ways to approach the localization issues, such as Conditional Text, or by having a separate suite of localized stub files containing only the localized Variable definitions to import, or having localized host files that import the Flow A from the master authoring files, etc.

re: I want to use a publication date variable on a Master page.

I've always dodged the date localization problem entirely, by using ISO 8601 format.
Reply originally posted 2021-03-06