Footer - Running H/F 1 $paratext[Heading 1] Running H/F 2 $paratext[Heading 2] problem

Question

Hi @ all,
found a new problem!
At the footer I am using variables to display what position of text is shown at the current page.
Running H/F 1 <$paratext[Heading 1]>
Running H/F 2<$paratext[Heading 2]>
But the problem is already that by reaching a new heading 1, the old heading 2 is displayed until a new heading 2 appears. but in some cases there will be no new heading 2, because the heading 1 stands alone like "Checklist" which got no heading 2. But the foote again displays the heading 2 from the heading before. not beautiful...
solutions?
Thanks Michael

Answer 1

FM's rule for using the <$paratext[...]> building block is to search backwards from the current page to satisfy the requested condition. So, if there is no Heading2 tagged content, it looks backwards until it finds one to use. There are a few ways to get around this issue.
1. Use the <$marker1> and <$marker2>  building blocks instead, but that means you have to populate these and place resets (i.e. empty contents) every time you start a new Headimg1 level.
2. Use an empty Heading2 paratag after your Heading1 (ugly and not really recommended).
3. Use the building blocks multiple tag feature to specify an alternate paratag to pick up, e.g. <$paratext[Heading2, EmptyHeading]>. Then format the EmptyHeading to be as invisible as possible on the page with no content. When there is a Heading1 with no correesponding Heading2 on a page, just the EmptyHeading paratag. Tip: you can insert this paratag in an anchored frame (text frame within the anchored frame) and hang this out in the margins to keep the flow of text in the body unaffected.