Re: <$paranumonly[paratag]> in generated lists

[Dan Emory <danemory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To get prefixes to page numbers into generated TOCs, indexes, etc., you
must, in the book file, use the Set Up File command to enter the applicable
prefix number.

At 08:47 AM 1/9/99 +1100, Peter Abelard at Abelard Consulting Pty Ltd wrote:
>Hello Framers,
>
>I have a problem getting the <$paranumonly[paratag]> block to work in
>generated TOCs and indexes.
>
>Each document in the book I am assembling has a single paragraph tagged
>"Part" at the start of the document. This paragraph is autonumbered (and,
>although there is only one such paragraph per document, the number
>increments with each new document due to the "Continue" setting in my book
>file set-up). The page numbering in the footers on each Master page refers
>to this autonumbered paragraph thus:
>
>Page <$paranumonly[Part]>-<$pagenum>
>
>This gives the page numbering format I want: 1-1, 1-2, 1-3 etc in the first
>document; 2-1, 2-2, 2-3 etc in the second document and so on.
>
>The problems begin when I generate the TOC and index for the entire book.
>Because the page numbering starts from 1 in each document (1-1...2-1...3-1
>and so on), I need to distinguish one page one from each other page one. The
>Frame manual doesn't cover this scenario in the chapter on generated lists,
>but based on what is says in general about formatting generated lists, I
>assume that what I want is achievable by adding building blocks to the
>appropriate reference page. The only building block I can think of that
>might be useful here is the same one that works fine for page numbering in
>my footers: that is, placing "<$paranumonly[Part]>-" before "<$pagenum>" in
>each paragraph specification on the TOC reference page (and likewise on the
>IX reference page).
>
>But Frame seems to ignore the [paratag]part of the <$paranumonly[paratag]>
>block when it generates the TOC. What I get is *not* the autonumber of the
>previous paragraph tagged "Part", but the autonumber of the paragraph
>selected for inclusion in the TOC. Thus I get entries in the TOC of
>".....4.1-2" and "....4.2-5 as the page numbers of the paragraphs
>autonumbered 4.1 and 4.2 respectively when I should have got "1-2" and "1-5"
>(since, in this case, the paragraph tagged "Part" is autonumbered "1"). In a
>word: Frame is ignoring the number of the *specified* paragraph tag (which
>remains fixed in any one document) and uses instead the number of the
>paragraph it is inserting into the TOC (which varies from paragraph to
>paragraph in any one document).
>
>Can anyone help me sort this out?
>
>Thanks
>
>Peter Abelard
>
>
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