Re: formatting page numbers in TOCs and IXs

["Jo Baer" <jbaer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not sure I understand your question thoroughly, but we now put text like
that in the master page for the chapter. The master page has an entry such as
Index-# (# being the variable for current page number).

Jo
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Jo Baer
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TCF National Bank
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Walter Gallant wrote:

> Using FrameMaker 6.0 on Windows 2000. Recently upgraded from FrameMaker 5.5.
>
> I want to control the format of page numbers generated in the TOC and IX
> files.
>
> In 5.5 I did this when I set up the generated files in the book file. It was
> simple and it invariably worked. I could specify a prefix (1- , 2- , etc.;
> A- , B- , etc.; I- [for IX] ), OR I could choose not to specify a prefix. If
> I did not specify a prefix, page numbers generated from the TOC and Preface,
> which use continuous Roman numerals (iii, iv, etc.), were generated
> correctly, without a prefix.
>
> In 6.0 I control the format of generated page numbers using the Numbering
> Properties dialog box. Can it really be the case that the only way I can get
> the page number formats I want is to set the Chapter property to Text and
> use the <$chapnum> variable to display whatever text I've typed (as well as
> text I have NOT typed, i.e. I've left an empty box for Preface numbers that
> don't want a prefix) in the Chapter box?
>
> This smells unpleasantly like MS Weird to me! Too much "autothinking".
>
> Can anyone tell me what I've missed?
>
> Walter Gallant
> Principal Technical Writer
> Vality Technology Incorporated
> 617 338-0357
> wgallant@vality.com


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