Sauza Textbook Template for Adobe FrameMaker

A professional Adobe FrameMaker template for designing university-level textbooks, academic books, and other long-form educational publications.

The Sauza Textbook Template gives you a carefully structured foundation for creating sophisticated textbooks without having to build the entire publishing system from scratch. It combines a comprehensive set of paragraph and character styles with flexible table formats, cross-reference formats, numbering systems, headers and footers, and a coordinated academic color palette.

Designed with long-form academic publishing in mind, the template is particularly well suited to university textbooks, scientific and technical books, course literature, professional reference works, and other publications containing large amounts of structured information.

Designed for real textbooks

The accompanying sample demonstrates how the template can be used for a complete textbook workflow, including chapter openings, hierarchical sections, running headers, figures and captions, equations, tables, questions and review material, glossaries, bibliographies, indexes, and lists of figures.

The result is a consistent editorial system that can handle the complexity of a substantial academic publication while maintaining a clean and coherent visual identity throughout the book.

Comprehensive paragraph styles

The template includes a broad range of paragraph styles for the different types of content encountered in academic publishing. These include:

• Chapter numbering and chapter titles

• Multiple heading levels

• Run-in headings

• Body text and secondary body text

• Bulleted and numbered lists

• Questions and Q&A material

• Indented text

• Equations

• Figure captions

• Table titles and footnotes

• Headers and footers

• Footnotes

• Glossary entries and glossary terms

• Manchet-style text

• Cell headings and cell body text

The heading hierarchy includes Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 3 and Heading 4, together with a dedicated run-in heading style. Numbering is also built into the system for headings, lists, figures and tables.

Because the formatting is style-based, global changes can be made efficiently: modifying a paragraph style updates the corresponding text throughout the document or book. The template also incorporates pagination and automatic-numbering controls to help maintain a stable structure as the manuscript develops.

Character styles for precise typography

A complementary set of character styles provides fine control over individual words, phrases and symbols without disturbing the underlying paragraph formatting.

Included styles cover elements such as:

• Bold

• Emphasis

• Academic Blue

• Chapter Number

• Page Number

• Equation Variables

• Blue Dot

• Blue Triangle

Character styles can also be used with cross-references, variables and running text, making them useful for maintaining consistent typography throughout a complex publication.

10 ready-made table styles

Tables are an important part of academic and scientific publishing, and the Sauza template provides 10 dedicated table styles:

1. Borders Blue

2. Borders Grey

3. First Column Blue

4. First Column Grey

5. Format A

6. Format B

7. Minimal Blue

8. Minimal Grey

9. Shaded Blue

10. Shaded Grey

The table formats control structural and visual properties such as column layout, cell padding, alignment, title placement, shading, borders and repeating header/footer rows. This allows different types of tables to be accommodated while keeping the overall design language consistent.

Built-in cross-reference formats

The template includes predefined cross-reference formats for common academic publishing tasks.

These include references to:

• Headings and page numbers

• Pages

• Tables

• Table numbers and page numbers

For example, the template supports references such as “See ‘Cross reference styles’ on page 15” and “Table 1 on page 15.” Because these are based on FrameMaker's dynamic cross-reference building blocks, references can update automatically when the referenced heading or page location changes.

This is particularly valuable in long textbooks, where manual references quickly become difficult to maintain.

Coordinated academic color palette

The template comes with a restrained academic color system designed to give the book visual hierarchy without overwhelming the content.

The included color definitions are:

• Blue - 01

• Soft Blue - 02

• Academic Blue - 03

• Violet Gray - 04

• Pale Aqua - 05

The colors are centrally defined so they can be reused across paragraph styles, character styles, tables and other document elements. This also makes it possible to change the visual identity of the entire publication by modifying the underlying color definitions rather than manually recoloring individual elements.

A complete academic publishing structure

The sample shows how the system works beyond individual pages. A textbook can incorporate a table of contents, preface, chapters and numbered sections, contributor information, glossary, bibliography, index and list of figures within a unified design system.

The sample also illustrates the template's ability to accommodate different kinds of academic content, including explanatory text, figures, scientific diagrams, equations, tables, review questions and vocabulary material.

What you get

The Sauza Textbook Template provides a ready-made FrameMaker foundation including:

• A complete paragraph-style system

• Multiple levels of headings

• Automatic numbering structures

• Body-text styles

• List and question styles

• Figure and table caption styles

• Equation styles

• Footnote styles

• Header and footer styles

• Glossary styles

• Character styles

• 10 table formats

• Cross-reference formats

• Coordinated academic color definitions

• Styles for indexes, bibliographies and other textbook components

• A complete sample showing the template in use

Spend your time writing—not building the publishing system

Creating a professional textbook in FrameMaker involves much more than choosing fonts and setting margins. Numbering, pagination, tables, figures, cross-references, running elements and supporting sections all need to work together.

The Sauza Textbook Template provides that underlying structure from the beginning, allowing you to concentrate on your manuscript, teaching content and illustrations rather than repeatedly solving the same formatting problems.

A solid starting point for authors, editors, designers and publishers creating professional university-level textbooks in Adobe FrameMaker.