FrameMaker problem with table numbering

[Kathleen MacDowell]

Eddie,

If Daniel's solution doesn't work, try contacting Shlomo Perets. His website
is at

http://www.microtype.com/

and he is a font of knowledge about FM.

Good luck,

Kathleen


On 2/1/07, Eddie VanArsdall <evanarsdall at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Hi, all:
>
> I have been using Frame for a few years and am currently updating Frame
> 7.2
> templates (unstructured) for my client, as well as using those templates
> to
> create deliverables. I didn't create the original templates, but they're
> pretty straightforward.
>
> I'm running into a problem that I have never encountered, and I can't
> solve
> it. The templates include various table formats, each of which has a
> built-in table title, numbered "Table X.X." When the tables were created,
> each title was formatted with a TableTitle tag. The numbering definition
> for
> the tag is T:Table <$chapnum>.<n+>, and no other tags use the T series
> label--only tables.
>
> At one point while updating the templates, I noted that most of the tags
> in
> the template have spaces in the name, so I changed the TableTitle tag name
> to Table Title (from no space to space). After I changed the name, the
> table
> numbering ceased to work. They apply the correct chapter number, but the
> second number is always a one (1). So, if we're in Chapter 1, all tables
> are
> 1.1; in Chapter 2, they're all 2.1.
>
> I have tried everything that I can think of:
> *       Reapplied the tag and updated the table definitions
> *       Removed and restored the numbering in the tag definition
> *       Restored the name to TableTitle
> *       Went back to our older templates and re-imported the old table
> formats.
>
> The numbering is still broken.
>
> The only way I could get the numbering to work was to redefine the table
> definitions from scratch. But there's still a twist. If I'm using a clean
> new template with my newly built table definitions, the numbering works
> fine. But if I copy a table from a document based on the older template,
> the
> numbering breaks. This is causing a major headache, because my team will
> routinely want to copy old tables into newer documents. If we copy any
> text--even one word--from a table in a document that has been affected by
> this problem, the numbering breaks.
>
> I posted this on the Adobe forum and received a lot of great advice, but
> none of the proposed solutions worked. Among the solutions I tried were
> searching and replacing "TableTitle" with "Table Title," and saving the
> file
> as a MIF and then saving the MIF as an FM file. Since then, we're back to
> using TableTitle with no space, but the numbering is still breaking unless
> we create brand new documents. And of course, we have a lot of old text
> that
> we have to reuse.
>
> I would appreciate advice. This problem is really affecting our workflow
> and
> deadlines.
>
> BTW, I'm new to posting here, so if there's a more specialized list that I
> should be posting this to, please let me know.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Eddie
>
> Edward VanArsdall
> Information Design and Development
> Technical Writing and Editing | Training | Instructional Design |
> Informational Analysis
> Senior Member, Society for Technical Communication
> evanarsdall at comcast.net
> H: 703-486-2952
> C: 703-201-6433
>
> --
> Kathleen MacDowell
> www.writefortheuser.com