Hi, Tammy: The first thing that comes to my senior FM'ers mind is that your TOC formats might be failing because perhaps your scheme is trying to recalculate autonumbering in the generated TOC, instead of simply extracting the numbering from the chapter file paragraphs.
I've always been a little worse at trying to debug someone else's problematic autonumbering, than at debugging my own. That's when I referred to various postings and examples. So, I tried a search for "examples of framemaker book autonumbering" and found plenty of old familiar stuff. If you haven't tried it, see if there are any useful memory triggers in the search results. HTH On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 5:27 PM <tamm...@spectrumwritingllc.com> wrote: > OK, > > > > Please have pity on my senior mind. It's been sooooooooooooooo long since I > have had to set certain formats up from scratch in Framemaker, that I am > just going bonkers trying to remember how I did something before. Here's my > current conundrum: > > > > On the first page of each chapter, I have the following tags: > > 1. ChapterNumber, with the numbering set to N:Chapter <$chapnum>. At > the book level, I set Chapter Numbering to 1 for the first chapter in the > book, and Continue numbering from previous chapter for all subsequent > chapters. The tag is set to start at the top of a page. > 2. ChapterTitle, which immediately follows ChapterNumber, and is set > to > Keep with Previous Paragraph. > > > > > > In each of my chapters in a book, I have Sections. The Sections are denoted > with a special master page layout that is different from the first page of > the chapter. On this page, I use several paragraph tags including the > following: > > 1. Section Number, with the numbering set to the following: S:Section > <n+>. The tag is set to start at the top of a page. > 2. Section Title. This is the tag that immediately follows > SectionNumber. This tag is set to keep with the previous paragraph. > > At the book level, I have paragraph tag numbering to start over for each > chapter, so the first time I use SectionNumber in a chapter, it is > numbering > correctly as Section 1, and then followed by Section 2, etc. > > > > For my TOC, I have selected the requisite tags, including ChapterTitle and > SectionTitle. > > 1. For my ChapterTitleTOC tag, here is the format: Chapter > <$chapnum>: > <$paratext>. . . . .<$pagenum> and I get the following output for example: > Chapter 1: Wiggle the Widget. . . . . . 17. > > > > I need to set up an analogous SectionTitleTOC tag : Section 1: Section > Title > contents, Section 2: Section Title contents, etc., and I guess I am missing > the boat on this one. I can go through all the iterations that I have > tried, > but no matter what I try, I wind up with the following: > > > > Section: <Section Title>. > > > > I cannot get the section number to show up after the word "Section" like I > can for ChapterTitle. I am sure it's because the <$chapnum> is a book-level > variable vs. paragraph tag numbering for SectionNumber, but I am at a loss > to understand any further. If any of you gurus out there can point me to > what I am doing wrong, and provide some insight, I would be most > appreciative. I had this working ages ago in another manual, but that > manual > is no longer in my possession, so I can't refer to it for clarification. > > > > TIA, > > > > > > > > Tammy Van Boening > > Tammy dot vanboening at spectrumwritingllc dot com > > www.spectrumwritingllc.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com > Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com > Archives located at > http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ > Subscribe and unsubscribe at > http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com > _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
