Without delving into the mystical innards of the reference pages, the
two TOC pages aren't uncommon -- the second one would be generated if
anyone ever used the file to generate a secondary TOC for any reason.
For instance, if they wanted to include Head1 and Head2s in a primary
TOC, and maybe expand to include Head3s, Procedures, Figures, and
Tables in a secondary (TOC1).
Try it in a test book file without a TOC -- the subsequent TOCs
incrementally number themselves.
Art
On 2/16/07, Zoe Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Greetings,
I've been using Frame for about 6 years now. My tech writing certificate course
talked us through some basics, so I can make my own templates, no problem. I
was a lone writer for almost 5 years, and I taught myself a lot of stuff about
making templates. I even tinkered with Framescript. I'm not a guru (especially
compared to many of the aces on this list), but I'm not a novice either. (With
unstructured Frame, anyway. I haven't touched structured.)
Today I was helping someone with a Frame Template because the TOC wasn't
generating properly. Even though it was all configured correctly on the TOC
Reference page, the tabs weren't coming through when you regenerated the TOC.
Turned out there were two TOC pages, TOC and TOC1. I made the normal TOC
formatting changes to TOC1, and it seemed to generate fine.
So, I've gotten it to work...but why?
1. How did the second TOC reference page get in there? This template uses a LOT
of reference pages. E.g. a lot of internal information (that you need to
reference) is stored in the reference pages, such as how to insert graphics,
document numbers, etc. Do all those reference pages 'confuse' things?
2. Why was Frame looking at the 2nd TOC reference page? Is there some mystical
setting you can only see in the MIF file that
tells Frame which TOC reference page to use? Or does frame just read through
the 'flow' of the reference pages and takes whatever the last one is? How does
Frame know to look at TOC or TOC1 for the formatting of the TOC page? Does it
go by the name of the page? i.e. anything with TOC in it?
I hope some of you gurus out there can explain it to me. I like knowing why
something works, so I can better understand how to use it.
Thanks!
Zoë
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