Pagination

[Stuart Rogers]

Tweedy, Scott wrote:
> I have a case where I have a question about numbering pages in a book.
>  
> I have to create a book which is to be generated monthly.  The book will 
> contain 3 FrameMaker files.  The first FrameMaker file rarely changes 
> and its length should be between 3 and 5 pages.  It's an introduction 
> section.
>  
> The second file is a generated Table of Contents that is to be linked to 
> the 3rd file, this file can be anywhere between 3 and 7 pages monthly.
>  
> The third file is generated every month from a list that is maintained 
> in another department.  The list is converted to an XML document which 
> is imported into FrameMaker.
>  
> I need the document to have numbering starting at the beginning of the 
> first file running continuously through each file, these numbers are not 
> printed on the pages, but to make sure the third section starts on the 
> correct page they have to be there.  Here's where I'm not sure how to 
> proceed.  The Table of Contents file (the second in the book) needs to 
> have its own numbering printed in the final copy, starting at 1.
>  
> i.e.: Table of Contents Page 1, Table of Contents Page 2.
>  
> In this case the <$curpagenum> variable contains the page number of the 
> book (which starts at 6 after the introduction section).  Is there a 
> FrameMaker variable that can be read from the file?  Something like 
> <$filepagenum>?  If that's not the case is there a variable I can use 
> (similar to section numbers <n+>) that simply increments so that I can 
> put those numbers on the Table of Contents pages?
>  
> Thanks in advance,
> st

Well, I haven't seen any posts trying to answer, so maybe I'll restate 
the problem just to make sure we all understand it...

You want a final output consisting of pages numbered thus:

Intro p.1 (invisible page number)
Intro p.2 (invisible page number)
Intro p.3 (invisible page number)
Intro p.4 (invisible page number)
Intro p.5 (invisible page number) (max pages may change)

TOC p.1 (visible p.n., restarts at "1")
TOC p.2 (visible p.n.)
TOC p.3 (visible p.n.)
TOC p.4 (visible p.n.)
TOC p.5 (visible p.n.)
TOC p.6 (visible p.n.) (max pages may change)


XML doc p.12 (visible p.n., counting from Intro p.1)
XML doc p.13 ( " )
etc. to end of book

Is this correct? (?!)

If so, perhaps you could just do it the manual way (untested, but I 
think this would work):

1.	From the Book window, set your numbering to start at "1" in all three 
files.

2.	Regenerate the TOC.

3.	Add up the number of pages in Intro + TOC, and set the XML doc 
numbering to start at the next number.

4.	Regenerate the TOC.

Kludgy, but you only have to do it once a month.

HTH,

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Stuart Rogers
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