TOCs at beginning of each chapter

[rebecca officer]

Hi David

For your first technique, you have to add all the .fm files to the "big" book, not add the single-chapter books to it. We used this approach for a while, but found it a pain to have to keep opening and updating the small books. Also, you have to muck with your numbering scheme. In your single-chapter books, the chapter numbering needs to use "read from file" and in your big book it needs to be "continue numbering from previous file in book". Then in the production process, update the big book first to get the chapter numbers right. And ignore error messages about inconsistent numbering.

Instead of this, we now create stand-alone TOCs and import them into each chapter as a text inset. The book update process doesn't generate these, but we have a framescript to update them in a single step. If you're interested I can ask our scripter if I can pass it on to you.

Cheers, Rebecca 

>>> "Wollenberger, David" <DAVID.Wollenberger at ca.com> 6/03/06 09:52 >>>
I am attempting to develop a template where there is a TOC at the
beginning of each chapter.

Initially, I thought that the only way I could do this would be to
create a book for each chapter. These books would contain nothing but
the chapter file and an autogenerated TOC. Then, I would create a master
book that contains each of the book files.  

Although FM allows me to add a book file to a book, when I attempt to
Generate or Find, I get nothing but error messages.  During Searches, FM
says it cannot open the book files; during Generation, FM says it cannot
generate because the master book file contains no openable non-generated
files. I can open these books from the master book window by
double-clicking, no errors.

Another approach would be to figure out some way of including the TOC
inside of the chapter file.  However, I cannot think how I would get FM
to do this.


Does anyone have any ideas about how to do this, or, if you can confirm
that it can't be done, that would help also.
 

David Wollenberger 


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