One of the main advantages of Art's suggested method should be that your strings will contain less building blocks.
Since you are using <$chapnum> we know you are not using FM5.5 or earlier, so your strings are likely overly complex. For instance, your t: series will not require placeholders for all sections and figures. The same holds true for your Sections (s:) series and your Figures (f:) series. They all will only need building blocks for the related sections within the series. It's a double bonus...less errors and less confusion! -Matt Matt Sullivan GRAFIX Training m...@roundpeg.com www.roundpeg.com Office 714 960-6840 Cell 714 585-2335 skype: mattatroundpeg LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/grafixtraining facebook| plaxo Click to tell me the social media sites you belong to -----Original Message----- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Art Campbell Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 1:18 PM To: Eva Whitley; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Weird autonumbering problem with Framemaker Scott's idea is something I didn't notice when you published your numbering strings. Insert a letter in front of the string to specify a unique numbering stream -- you can have 50+ of them, but it's best to make each type unique. Specifying a specific stream ensures that other tags won't reset one particular tag. For example, you could make your table string unique by preceding it with a "t:" to make it: t:Table <$chapnum>.<$volnum>-<n>< >< >< >< >< >< >< >-<n+> . Then save and update. For Figures, you may use an f like this: f:Figure <$chapnum>.<$volnum>-<n>< >< >< >< >< >< >< >-<n+> Art Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358 On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:18 PM, <qui...@airmail.net> wrote: > Check that the styles with numbering formats that fall between those > tables are replicating the proper stream. Someone is either off a > placeholder, or resetting your numbers. > > Scott > > Eva Whitley wrote: >> First off, thanks to all those who helped me with my document >> containing both 81/2"x11" and 11"x17" pages. As suggested, I pulled out the 11"x17" >> pages into a new document that will be another chapter in the book. >> >> Now I'm seeing a problem in autonumbering that is defying all my >> newbie efforts to fix. >> >> As mentioned before, we are running FM8 on PCs. We have styles >> defined for Tables and Figures. The Autonumber Format (from the >> Numbering tab on Paragraph Designer) for Tables is Table >> <$chapnum>.<$volnum>-<n>< >< >< >< >< >< >< >-<n+> so the first table >> in Section 5 should be Table 5.1-5-1 . And, indeed that's what the >> first table in Section 5 is labeled. Several pages later, at the next >> table the Autonumber Format is Table <$chapnum>.<$volnum>-<n>< >< >< >> >< >< >< >< >-<n+> that should be labeling the table Table 5.1-5-2. >> But instead it's coming out as Table >> 5.1-5-1 . >> >> Skipping forward several pages, the next table is labeled Table 5.1-5.2. >> The one after that is Table 5.1-5-3. The one after that is labeled >> Table >> 5.1-5-1 . >> The Autonumber Format is Table <$chapnum>.<$volnum>-<n>< >< >< >< >< >> >< >> >< >-<n+> >> >> Anyone have any idea of what's causing this? And more importantly, >> how it can be fixed? I've tried deleting the tables, importing the >> info as unformatted text, and if the new table is inserted right >> after the old one, it numbers correctly, but if it's inserted back >> into the original location I get the same problem. I've recreated the >> tables into a new document (and the autonumbers behave in that) but >> when I paste them into the original document--same problem. I've >> copied the code and pasted in to the Autonumber Format text box, and that hasn't fixed it. >> >> I'm truly stumped. 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