RE: Figure Numbering in FrameMaker

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Howard Rauch wrote: 
  
> Figures are automatically numbered using a Figure tag for 
> which the automatic numbering format X:Figure <n+> (developed 
> by the client). Most are smaller in-column figures with a 
> ruling line around the figure frame. In previous versions of 
> the manuals, the client had placed the figure numbers outside 
> the frame, but now they have asked me to move them inside the 
> frame, so I set up a text box inside the graphics frame and 
> tag the text as Figure. What happens is that many times, 
> figure numbers will repeat themselves. For example, I may 
> have three or four consecutive figures numbered as Figure 4, 
> followed by Figure 5 and two figures numbered as Figure 6. 
> The only way I have found to correct it is to override the 
> automatic numbering with a specific figure number, which of 
> course defeats the purpose of auto numbering.

Repeating numbers? I can come up with theories to explain restarting of
numbering or out-of-sequence numbers, but I can't imagine why the number
would fail to increment. You're sure all the Figure pgfs have the same
autonumber format (X:Figure <n+>)? The repeating ones aren't overrides
where the counter has been changed to "<n>"? 

Assuming you have only one pgf format for all figure captions, and none
of them have overrides, there are still possible numbering pitfalls from
having the figure captions in the anchored frames instead of in the main
flow. I'd scrap that idea and use tables to create the appearance that
the client wants. 

Instead of letting the anchored frame provide the ruling box around the
figure and caption, put both the figure caption and figure inside a
single-cell table (or put each in a cell of a two-cell table) and set
the table borders to provide the ruling box appearance you want. That
way, the figure captions are part of the main flow of the doc. (Oh, and
anchor each table in its own pgf.) 

HTH!
Richard


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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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303-777-0436
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