Re: a question for FrameMaker experts

Subject: Re: a question for FrameMaker experts
From: Becca <becca_price -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: voxwoman <voxwoman -at- gmail -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:20:58 -0700 (PDT)

Thank you!  I'll pass this on to my classmate, and we'll see whether we can get it to work.

so far, I'm loving FrameMaker 10, but it does have it's little quirks.

-becca

 
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> From: voxwoman <voxwoman -at- gmail -dot- com>
>To: Becca <becca -at- di -dot- org>
>Cc: tech2wr-l <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
>Sent: Monday, April 9, 2012 9:04 PM
>Subject: Re: a question for FrameMaker experts
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>Becca,
>Format > Document > Numbering
>
>in the Paragraph tab, select "Continue numbering from previous paragraph in
>book"
>
>
>I think that should work.
>
>-Wendy
>
>
>On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Becca <becca_price -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
>
>> I'm taking a class in FrameMaker.  My team has a project that consists of
>> a book of 8 separate files, plus a ToC and an Index.  We've got the page
>> numbers to number sequentially across all files in a book, but we can't
>> seem to figure out how to get the figure numbers to number sequentially
>> across the book - each file starts with figure 1, and then numbers
>> sequentially within the file. We're using the tag f:Figure (n+) for our
>> automatic figure numbering. We could get them to number by section number
>> (1-1, 1-2, 2-1, 2-2) but we don't want that... we want them to number 1, 2,
>> 3, 4, and so on.
>>
>> Can anyone help me figure out what the automatic numbering tag or variable
>> should be?
>>
>> many thanks!
>>
>> -becca
>>
>>
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>> "Grant us, in our direst need, the smallest gifts: the nail of the
>> horseshoe, the pin of the axle, the feather at the pivot point, the pebble
>> at the mountain's peak, the kiss in despair, the one right word. In
>> darkness, understanding."
>>
>> Paladin of Souls (HB page 35), Lois McMaster Bujold
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