RE: auto-line numbers

["Snavely, Deborah" <dsnavely@xxxxxxxx>]

Jay, Ed,

I've done a quick-concept document in which I created two columnar body
flows on the master page. Anyone is welcome to a MIF copy of this empty test
document. 

ON THE MASTER PAGE
Created a narrow flow near the binding margin, labelled it Line Numbers
(truth in tags!), and set it to Autoconnect. I created a new paragraph tag
in it [Line Numbers] of the simplest possible autonumber format: <n+>, which
is set to "end of paragraph," allowing for right-aligned numbers without
leading zeroes (alternately, set paragraph to right-align). In real use, of
course, one must set the paragraph spacing and font to match code samples
(set a character tag and apply to both) so that the lines in each column
will match up. I didn't bother creating the Left master page but it's no
trick to do so, just copy and paste the text blocks from the Right page and
reverse their positions on the Left page to put numbers near binding as
requested.

ON THE BODY PAGES
Type whatever or text goes in the body flow and then create a pagefull of
returns in the line-number flow and copy and paste until all your doc is
numbered. (This part can undoubtedly be automated further but I only took a
coffee break to create the test doc.)

Although FrameMaker now lets us auto-create multi-column layouts of an even
width, one still needs to understand how to create frames as columns and
link them (or not) in order to create uneven-width columns. This solution
applies a two-flow version of uneven columns.

Deborah Snavely
Senior Documentation Specialist
consulting at Visa
seeking next opportunity...
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