TOCs at beginning of each chapter

[Bodvar Bjorgvinsson]

This method is only needed, IMHO, if you want the ToC to refer to the
ToC, or if you have a very small ToC that will be sharing a page with
the beginning of the chapter.

But I agree: use only one book file.

There is also the third alternative: make the individual ToCs for each
chapter and add it to the book file before the chapter. Then you can
decide the numbering from within the book file, whether you have a
separate numbering for the ToC, like Roman numbers or the same as the
chapter, in which case you would set the chapter file to continnue the
numbering from the previous file. In the last case, you will have to
update the ToC to show the new page numbering.

HTH,

Bodvar

On 3/5/06, rebecca officer <rebecca.officer at alliedtelesyn.co.nz> wrote:
> 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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