Client wants *every* line across the whole book to be numbered contiguously. Having the cell numbers out of step with the others would not be acceptable.
Tori Muir tmuir at spot-on-creative.com | 650.430.8674 www.spot-on-creative.com On 2/25/13 12:09 PM, De Rosier, Edward wrote: > Hi Tori, > > You said: >> Sooo... just popped $400 to upgrade to FM11, solely for the line >> numbering. However, we're working on a set of engineering specs that >> contains many huge tables, and Frame isn't numbering any lines in the >> tables. >> >> Is this just the way it works? Or am I missing some setting that would >> add line numbers corresponding to text in tables? This is a killer issue >> for this project, and it Frame can't do it we'll have to resort back to >> our previous method of putting hard-coded line numbers on the master >> pages -- which client doesn't like because then every page has the same >> numbers. > Your description of line numbering in tables did not describe how you are > using those numbers. My writing group uses a paragraph tag set that we named > CellNumbered1 and CellNumbered. > We are on FrameMaker-9 with Windows-7. > > The critical part of building of the Autonumber Format is as follows: > > C:<n=1>.\t > and > C:<n+>.\t > > I tested these just now with three successive tables. I added CellNumbered1 > to the top cell of a column and then added > CellNumbered to several cells below in the same column and in multiple > columns within a table. > > I continued the CellNumbered tag in the following table. > > In the third table, I returned to the use of CellNumbered1 to the top cell of > a column and CellNumbered to several cells below. > > The numbering of the paragraphs was as expected whether the additional > paragraphs were within a cell or in separate cells. The numbering continued > across tables and was restarted as expected. > > If your requirements are different, perhaps you could give more details of > your needs. > > Ed DeRosier > Senior Technical Writer > Anritsu Company > Morgan Hill, California > > >
