Where does <$chaptertitlename> get updated?

[TdeV1]

I'm using <$paratext[H1_Heading1]> on master page, but I see the presence of <$chaptertitlename> in the list of variables. If I insert the variable I get the filename of the current file. So how does the variable get updated?

Also, how does Frame know what is a chapter? Or section or subsection?

Using Frame 12.

[Bob_Niland]

Try:

FM9 Hierarchical Books: New variable

and

<$chaptertitlename> gives unexpected results

[TdeV1]

Hi Error and thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I can't find anyway to make the Captivate screen image larger than 2" x 3", so I can't see what's going on. And I've already read the message from the manual about "Associate a template with a folder." Unfortunately, I have no idea what it means. There are no samples, no other explanation for it.

[Bob_Niland]

> ... no other explanation for it.

And I've already told you more than I know, never having used it. Perhaps some FM9+ users with experience will chime in.

[FieryPantone]

Speculatively, though FM and I have had a reasonable working understanding of each other's ways for a while now, I'd guess that a chapter is a single .fm file. I've never used <$chaptertitlename>, and would have conceptual problems trying to imagine what the name of a title would be in the first place :-}

[short pause for indepth research]

• from one test, it looks as though <$chaptertitlename> pulls in the same info as <$filename> – as such, it would only be updated by changing the name of the file
• for a second test, I went a bit farther and set up a folder containing three .fm files … my vague hope/expectation was that using <$chaptertitlename> in one of the .fm files would then pull in the title of the containing folder

No such luck, even after updating the book. I didn't bother trying to find out whether the $section variables pulled in content from the second and later files in the folder.

So I conclude I don't have any understanding of this variable and its $section relatives.

[TdeV1]

Good to know that I'm not crazy, Niels. But I am glad that Error7103 illustrated a help example that said that it doesn't work the way someone and you (and I) thought it would.