Tammy,
I don't remember exactly, but you can make autonumbering remember
different series of things. There is some variable like SORT A, SORT B
that makes you able to say something like A:<n> B:<n+>
-Theresa
On 3/12/2021 12:28 PM, tamm...@spectrumwritingllc.com wrote:
Hi Peter,
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I am not trying to recalculate
autonumbering in the generated TOC. I am indeed trying to extract the number
from the paragraph tag, and I think that is the crux of the matter.
SectionNumber is an auto-numbered tag used within a chapter file whereas the
tag that immediately follows, SectionTitle, is not auto-numbered. The
numbering is not at the file level such as with $Chapnum, so I am probably
trying to mix apples and oranges (for lack of a better metaphor). . . trying
to extract a paragraph number from one tag and get it assigned to another
tag when generating the TOC. I swear I had done this successfully before,
but for the life of me, I can't figure out how I did it. . . . I have punted
for now and did a little kludging to the SectionTitle paragraph tag to get
the number to pop in the TOC. It isn't elegant, but it works.
Thanks!
TVB
Tammy Van Boening
Tammy dot vanboening at spectrumwritingllc dot com
www.spectrumwritingllc.com
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Subject: Re: [Framers] Help with setting up a paragraph tag in the TOC
Hi, Tammy:
The first thing that comes to my senior FM'ers mind is that your TOC formats
might be failing because perhaps your scheme is trying to recalculate
autonumbering in the generated TOC, instead of simply extracting the
numbering from the chapter file paragraphs.
I've always been a little worse at trying to debug someone else's
problematic autonumbering, than at debugging my own. That's when I referred
to various postings and examples. So, I tried a search for "examples of
framemaker book autonumbering" and found plenty of old familiar stuff. If
you haven't tried it, see if there are any useful memory triggers in the
search results.
HTH
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 5:27 PM <tamm...@spectrumwritingllc.com> wrote:
OK,
Please have pity on my senior mind. It's been sooooooooooooooo long
since I have had to set certain formats up from scratch in Framemaker,
that I am just going bonkers trying to remember how I did something
before. Here's my current conundrum:
On the first page of each chapter, I have the following tags:
1. ChapterNumber, with the numbering set to N:Chapter <$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
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