Ummm... If I have a paragraph that wraps to 8 lines, I get how it would number the top line, but how does it number the other 7?
Tori Muir tmuir at spot-on-creative.com | 650.430.8674 www.spot-on-creative.com On 2/25/13 1:03 PM, De Rosier, Edward wrote: > Hi Tori, > > After sending my note, and before deleting the test file, I also placed the > CellNumbered paragraph tag in place of body text paragraphs between tables. > The numbering and renumbering were consistent inside and outside the tables. > > This might be applied to Headings and other paragraph types. I see no > problem with applying the Autonumber Format to other paragraph tags, > including all paragraph tags within your documents. > > This was just a wild suggestion that I meant to stimulate ideas. It works in > FrameMaker-9. > > Ed DeRosier > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tori Muir [mailto:tmuir at spot-on-creative.com] > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 12:55 PM > To: De Rosier, Edward > Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Re: Line numbering tables in FM11? > > 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 >> >> >>
