RE: Numbering errors when generating books

["Fred Ridder" <docudoc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don't worry about setting the numbering properties in the individual
files, because those setting only really matter if you are printing that
one file (rather than a book that contains the file).

Always set the numbering properties from the book file before you
do the book update in preparation for publishing. The numbering
properties that relate to the currrent book get saved in the individual
files, which means that you wont get the "inconsistent properties"
message the next time you work with that same book unless you've
worked with one of the other books that share some components
in the meantime. But if you *do* work on one of the other books
in the meantime, you'll get the message for each one of the shared
files in each book. I face this situation all the time, and I simply use
the "ignore remaining inconsistencies" option so that FrameMaker can
simply do the updates it needs to do without warning me each time.
If you've verified the correct setup for the book version you're actually
working on, it simply doesn't matter that the properties saved in the
files are different than what is appropriate for the current book, so
you can safely suppress the "insonsistent properties" warning.

My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel
Fred Ridder
Intel
Parsippany, NJ


> From: "Vincent Hurtel" <vhurtel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <framers@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Numbering errors when generating books
> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:58:31 +0200
>
> Hello All
> I'm working on several books with FrameMaker 7.1.
> Many of these books use common files not as text inset but as framemaker
> files inserted in the necessary books.
> I put attention to give each independant file uniform numbering properties,
> I reported these properties for each file in their books.
> Although all these careful settings I always have "Inconsistent Numbering
> Properties" alerts when generating some of these books.
> This alerts means that numbering properties specified for the independant
> file are different from the properties specified for the file in the book.
> I checked the numbering properties for the independant file and for the 
> file
> in the book but there is no difference.
> Most of the time that alert appears when the common file is inserted in two
> different books just after the TOC file. It seems that when the TOC file
> contains different number of pages in the two books, FrameMaker is unable 
> to
> give a continuous numbering to the next file in the book when that last is
> also used in another book. It works well for the first book generated, but
> FrameMaker displays its "Inconsistent Numbering Properties" alert when
> generating the secund book.
> Has someone already encountered this type of problem ? Is it possible to
> solve it ? I would like to automate book generations with framescript, but 
> I
> would like to set before a generation process without any errors.
> Thanks
> Vincent
>
>
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