Re: Can't generate TOC/Index from a book

[Martha J Davidson <editrix@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:43 AM 5/30/2002 +0300, Harvey Kaniel wrote:
>When trying to generate a TOC and index from a book consisting of six 
>chapters, I get a very cryptic error message: "Couldn't update this book, 
>because it contains no openable nogenerated files."  All the document 
>files generate a TOC/index very nicely individually. But when I add them 
>to a book, which I've recreated several times today . . . ., something 
>goes haywire. FWIW, the page numbering is OK. What am I doing wrong?

How did you add the TOC and IX files to your book? If you took the TOC
and IX files you generated for each chapter and dragged them into your
book file, then Frame does not recognize them as generatable files, but
rather as "regular" files just like your chapters.

Verify that you have created the TOC and IX by selecting Add > TOC
and Add > Standard Index from the book file menu. This puts placeholders
into the book file that will become files when you generate the book.

One thing I learned a long time ago that has helped me get the formatting
I wanted from the first time I generated the files is to *not* generate the
book right away when I add these placeholders. Instead, I create a skeleton
file for each generated file, with the exact name that Frame added to
the book file, and put these files into the directory where the book file
lives. Then, when I generate the files, they will have the formatting defined
inside these skeleton files.

martha

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