Numbers in my book's ToC?

[Steve Rickaby]

At 9:28 am -0700 25/1/06, Combs, Richard wrote:

>If that's really true, you're doing something seriously wrong. The whole
>point of adding an autonumber to a paragraph tag definition is so that
>it will -- you know -- automatically have a number. Are you really
>manually adding numbers? If so, you don't have autonumbers, and you need
>to read pp. 113-122 of the User Guide.

It's just possible that Murray may be 'adding' the numbering to his TOC by defining autonumbers in the TOC's para tags, suggested by:

> > I have created a paragraph numbering tag for each type of
> > heading in my chapter ToC, e.g. toc12 is <$chapnum>.<n=0>.

I recently came across this in someone who didn't fully grasp the idea of constructors in the TOC flow on the reference pages. And it's hard to explain to them why it's not a good idea, because it works, sort of  ;-)

Murray: as other have said, FrameMaker can add numbering to any para for you automatically, then pick up the text and the number of the para for use in the TOC. You do the former by setting up the numbering in the paragraph's Numbering dialog in the Paragraph Constructor, and the latter by correctly defining the corresponding paragraph tag on the reference page of the generated TOC file that contains the TOC flow (see Bernard's mail).
-- 
Steve