Dear David, I don't know of a good option. The standard you seem to be working from isn't one that I've heard of. Every mainstream style guide I've seen says that front matter should be numbered separately from the body. That means that your chapter 1 should start on page 1 according to commonly-accepted standards. The FM architecture is designed to conform to those standards. I seriously doubt they'll change it, though I agree that the numbering and the format shouldn't be connected.
======================================= Aside: By the way, Chicago's style does this because they assume that front matter will change after the body text has been paginated, so removing the dependency makes sense. In modern, computer-paginated technical manuals the dependency may no longer exist. Recognizing this, I have chosen to number from the first page of the front matter in Arabic. One benefit of this is that Adobe PDF versions of my books match the PDF page number to the "printed" page number! Keen readers of Chicago's online Q&A will recognize this issue from last month; I was the one who asked the question. Alas, they didn't quite understand my point. The standard of numbering front and back matter separately from the body makes sense in a traditional world, and I suppose that it should be the standard if you are going to have only one single standard to cover every situation. But in a book generated from FM, where one can re-paginate at the click of a button, I think the standard has no useful purpose. Joe Malin Technical Writer (408)625-1623 jmalin at tuvox.com www.tuvox.com The views expressed in this document are those of the sender, and do not necessarily reflect those of TuVox, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: framers-bounces+jmalin=tuvox....@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+jmalin=tuvox.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Wollenberger, David Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 1:16 PM To: Framers (FrameMaker List) Subject: Page Numbering Properties Using FM7.0p578 on WinXP I have a situation which I don't think is so unusual, and yet I can't seem to figure out how to get FM to handle it. Our TOC page numbering begins on iii and goes as long as it has to, ending on an even page. Our Chapter 1 begins on the next page after the TOC page. So if the TOC is eight pages (iii-x), then the first page of Chapter 1 is 11. Looking at FM's Numbering Properties dialog, Page tab, at first glance, it would appear that I need to use Continue Numbering from Previous Page in Book, but then the first page in Chapter 1 is numbered xi, even if I set it to Numeric. To my knowledge, the only way around this problem is to use First Page and manually set the value to <number of pages in TOC + 3>, in this 11, and set the style to Numeric. This solution becomes cumbersome when publishing conditional books. For example, I need to produce six books from the same set of source files. The number of pages in the TOC can change from 6 to 8 to 10 depending on which book I am publishing, so I have to manually reset the Page Numbering Properties for Chapter 1 each time I publish version of the book.
