Get footer from parent page to apply italics from title

Hi @ricks35183463:

What you didn't share is how the content looks on the body page so I made a guess and set up the title as a single paragraph, styled with the paragraph style called Title. I then assigned three individual characters styles. (Yours may be simpler.)

I used three character styles: Lesson No (no formatting), Title (removes bold) and Number (removes bold and assigns italics).  

On the parent page I set up three consecutive, individual variables: I called them Lesson No, Title and Number. All three are using the Type: Running Header (Character style) which allows me to call in (and format individually) content assigned the character styles Lesson No, Title and Number on the Body pages.

I then used a character style to assign bold to the first variable, ignored the middle one and made the last variable italic.

The result on the body pages:

~Barb

@ricks35183463 

Can you post a "better" screenshots - with more real/complete examples?

Hi Rick:

There are two ways to get InDesign to collect content from the page for the running heads: either by referencing a paragraph style or a character style (or styles) in running head variables. 

Like Willi suggested, the only way I have figured out how to get regular and italics into the running head automatically is to use two character styles on the title: one for the regular text and one for the italics. I set up both variables on the parent page side-by-side and then call in the text assigned the character styles. This works if there is position consistency (the italics is always at the beginning of the title or always at the end) but falls apart if the italics is in the middle of the title. Since your lesson number is always at the end,  that should work for you.

Come back if you have further questions. I'm happy to record a demo for you tomorrow morning.

~Barb

Text variables are seen as one single character. Can you divide the title into 2 entities, based on each one with a character style you can insert 2 text variables with different character formatting.