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Re: FrameMaker numbering resets to 1 after an anchored frame
Subject:Re: FrameMaker numbering resets to 1 after an anchored frame From:cll01821 -at- lycos -dot- com To:"Rachna Ganguli" <rachna -dot- ganguli -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Thu, 11 May 2006 08:30:09 -0500
Dear Rachna,
Thanks for the suggestions. I tried everything that you mentioned. None of them worked. The only thing that worked so far was the process I described.
Carol
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rachna Ganguli" <rachna -dot- ganguli -at- gmail -dot- com>
> To: "cll01821 -at- lycos -dot- com" <cll01821 -at- lycos -dot- com>
> Subject: Re: FrameMaker numbering resets to 1 after an anchored frame
> Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 08:55:08 +0530
>
>
> Hey Carol
>
> My guess is somewhere around that anchored frame, you have an instance
> of a paragraph tag that is resetting the numbering. Usually, a para
> tag is applied before (and after) an anchored frame, maybe something
> there is throwing things off.
>
> You could check if any overrides have crept in when you removed those
> captions. An easy way to look is to use the arrow keys and stop when
> you see a tag with an asterisk in front of it. If that be the case,
> reapply the _clean_ Number skip tag. You might also want to check the
> Numbering tab in the Paragraph Designer for the temperamental tags.
>
> I usually knock off these tag troubles by reimporting all the para
> tags from the template, or any _well_behaved_ file.
>
> ~Rachna
>
> On 5/11/06, cll01821 -at- lycos -dot- com <cll01821 -at- lycos -dot- com> wrote:
> > I have a procedure with 7 steps. Step 1 uses the Number-Restart tag. Steps
> > 2 through 7 use the Number tag. I use the Number-Skip tag to include
> > non-numbered paragraphs in a step.
> >
> > I also use the Number-Skip tag for non-numbered paragraphs that hold
> > anchored frames. When an anchored frame contains artwork with captions, the
> > number of the step following the paragraph with the artwork and captions
> > suddenly resets to 1. I am not kidding. It is completely bizarre.
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