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Best, Baruch On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Harding, Daniel B <dharding at illinois.edu>wrote: > For the first time I?m needing to have ?books within a book? and I?m > having a bit of a logical disconnect. What we ultimately want is 3 separate > books with a single index that spans all 3 voumes.**** > > ** ** > > We want to differentiate the volumes in the master index such that all > entries from the first volume are preceded by ?A-?, the second by ?B-?, and > ?C-? for the third.**** > > ** ** > > I?ve set up a .book for each volume, containing the chapters for each > sub-book. Then I?ve created a master .book file that has in it the three > .book files, along with a generated index file at that master book level.* > *** > > ** ** > > I?ve set the page numbering for all files to ?Read from file?.**** > > ** ** > > I?ve gone in and edited the <$volnum> variable in each of the individual > .fm files and made them A, B, and C. Then on the reference page of the > master index file, I edited the IndexIX entry to read > <$autorange><$volnum>-<$pagenum> assuming that it would pull the volume > number of the .fm file being read.**** > > ** ** > > Apparently this isn?t the way to go about it, as it?s not working. I just > get 1-xx for all page numbers.**** > > ** ** > > Thanks in advance.**** > > ** ** > > *-Dan***** > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as baruch at technitext.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/baruch%40technitext.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > > -- B a r u c h B r o d e r s e n T e c h n i t e x t D o c u m e n t a t i o n 5 0 3 8 5 3 5 0 0 6 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20120117/dd88a348/attachment.html>
