Sure - this is actually pretty easy. You need to use blank placeholders "< > " to keep FM from changing certain counters while incrementing the one you're interested in. For example:
Step = S:Step <n+>0: Table = S:Table <n>0.< ><a+> Figure = S:Figure <n>0.<a+>< > On Tuesday, September 18, 2007 12:41 PM, Maxwell Hoffmann wrote: | I have a challenge with autonumbering, and can't recall the | solution. (Ran into this unusual numbering style some years | ago.) I am trying to get a complex autonumbering sequence to | work in unstructured FM7.2 on Windows. | | I'm assisting a customer with a template that requires the | following numbered paragraphs to occur w/in one document: | | Step 10: How to rinse the sink | <body text> | Step 20: How to dry the sink | <text> | Table 20.a | <table> | Table 20.b | <table> | Figure 20.a | <Figure> | Step 30: How to fill the sink | <body text> | Figure 30.a | <Figure> | | In other words, both Table Title and Figure Title have to | inherit their primary number from the "Step". The problem is | how to maintain a separate number stream for Tables and | Figures that will let them number sequentially, and not be | affected by one another. | | Here are my para number definitions: | | When mixing Figures and Tables I get results like these: | Step 10: | Figure 10.a | Figure 10.b | Figure 10.c | Table 10.d | Step 20: | | ... The "Table" needs to number at "Table 10.a" | | I thought of using <$chapnum> for the primary <n+> in the | "Step" para, but <$chapnum> will not number sequentially w/in | the same document. Using the following definitions works for | one "Step 10:" but there is no way to have "Step 20:" number | sequentially: | Step = S:Step <$chapnum>0: | Table = F:Figure <$chapnum>0.<a+> | Figure = T:Table <$chapnum>0.<a+> | | These definitions produce the following results: | Step 10: | Figure 10.a | Figure 10.b | Figure 10.c | Table 10.a | Step 10: | | FYI -- this document does not require or use a conventional | numbered chapter heading. | | Can anyone out there think of an autonumbering pattern in | FrameMaker (7.2) that will work for the sequence I describe | at the beginning of my email? Any and all advice welcomed. | | Maxwell Hoffmann/ENLASO | (805) 807-0853 - Lester ------------------------------------------------------- Lester C. Smalley Email: lsmalley AT infocon DOT com Information Consultants, Inc. Phone: 302-239-2942 FAX: 302-239-1712 Yorklyn, DE 19736 Web: www.infocon.com -------------------------------------------------------
