Ouch, not so hard!!! I'd heard from a few others about the Master Pages issue and will check into that when I get to the office this morning. (It's coming up on 6:30 a.m. here and I leave by 7 to get there by 8:30 a.m. -- a 53-mile jaunt).
-- Kenpo in metro Atlanta At 02:58 AM 2/16/2010, Combs, Richard wrote: >Ken, if you were here right now, I'd put on my chrome Patton helmet, >slap you upside the head, and bark, "Snap out of it, soldier!" But >that's probably just the adult beverages talking. > >Stop looking at Format This and Format That, and actually >_look_at_the_footers_ on your master pages. I'm guessing they >contain either " -#" or "<$chapnum>-#" (sans quotes, of course). >Delete the "-" (or "<$chapnum>-"), and you're good to go. > >But remind yourself not to import page layouts from a chapter file >to your frontmatter files. If you're going to use folio numbering >(chapter#-page#) for your chapters and traditional roman numbering >(i, ii, etc.) for your frontmatter, then you have to use different >master pages for the frontmatter files. > >Richard > > >---------- >From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com on behalf of Ken Poshedly >Sent: Mon 2/15/2010 7:14 PM >To: framers at lists.frameusers.com >Subject: single character page numbering (with no hyphen) > >FM8.0 on a Windows Vista platform > >I'm sure there's a simple answer for this, but I've really tried all >I can think of and can't seem to find a way to get rid of the >preceding hyphen for a page number within a footer. > >Like it or not, I'm trying to place just a single, lower-case Roman >numeral in the footer of my TOC. So with the file open and Master >Pages view selected, I choose Format > Headers & Footers > Insert Page # > >What I get is a hyphen preceding the pound-sign variable or >placeholder or whatever it is. > >I've checked Format > Document > Numbering and tried to make sure >there is nothing in the Chapter box. > >I've checked Format > Paragraph Designer > Numbering (just to see if >a hyphen is included in the numbering equation) but there is no >numbering scheme to found there at all. > >I've checked Special > Variable > Edit Definition and deleted the >unnecessary building blocks for Current Page # (leaving only ><$curpagenum> with no preceding hyphen) and, for whatever reason, >that didn't work. > >Note that in the rest of the book, I do use a chapter number with >hyphen with page number combo. But I don't want it that way in the >TOC and I don't want to designate the TOC as section 0. No comments, >please, on my choice of document or numbering decisions. > >So short of actually typing in an i and an ii and so on, what else to do? > >-- Kenpo in Atlanta > > >_______________________________________________ > > >You are currently subscribed to Framers as richard.combs at polycom.com. > >Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > >To unsubscribe send a blank email to >framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com >or visit ><http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/richard.combs%40polycom.com>http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/richard.combs%40polycom.com > >Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit ><http://www.frameusers.com/>http://www.frameusers.com/ for more >resources and info.