RE: formatting page numbers in TOCs and IXs

["Wright, Lisa" <LWright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Walter,
I am not absolutely certain, as I am still struggling with the autonumbering
changes in 6.0 myself, but I try looking at the Reference pages for your
index file and see what building blocks it's asking for. Check p. 347 of the
6.0 user guide to see all the building blocks.

I was having similar (and rather profane) thoughts myself when I could not
get my TOC to stop forcing the display of a chapter number for the preface,
index, and appendix files, but then I realized the reference page was set up
to use the tags in a way that produced undesirable results. Once I fixed
that, it was fine.

HTH,
Lisa Wright

-----Original Message-----
From: Walter Gallant [mailto:wgallant@vality.com]
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 11:57 AM
To: 'framers@omsys.com'
Subject: formatting page numbers in TOCs and IXs


Framers,

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 <mailto:wgallant@vality.com> 
 


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