It would be highly valuable to be able to define a parent text frame and then link that frame to other frames in a layout that duplicates the text in that frame.

This would be similar to the way that text links in alternate layouts work, but the styles to the linked (child?) frames are allowed to be independent of the parent.

Trying to use text variables for this kind of duplication runs into the multi-line issue. Copying linked frames from alternate layouts will result in the parent style of the linked text to overrun any changes made to the child.

An example use for this would be printed tab layouts, where the from one frame in the layout typically appears on the tab front, tab back, and back of the tab. Having these frames linked to automatically refresh the only text of the parent while maintaining the unique styles required by their placement would be an elegant solution.

Also, this would provide a unique opportunity to make more graphical use of text in reliably repeatable ways, as one frame could control text in many frames, styled, arranged and layered in more artist ways, but still editable with little effort.