Continuous Numbering in framemaker

[Tammy Van Boening]

Thanks Joe. This helped me refine my approach a bit - but at least I was
on track with the white color. 

This list saves me so many times.

TVB


Tammy Van Boening
Engineering Technical Writer
InsureWorx
303-729-7733
tvanboening at insureworx.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Malin [mailto:jmalin at jmalin.com] 
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 7:49 PM
To: Tammy Van Boening
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com; techcomm-discuss at stcrmc.org
Subject: Re: Continuous Numbering in framemaker

This a bit tricky. I haven't done it before, but I found instructions
for it in the Adobe FrameMaker help. The topic title is

"Including the total page count of a book in a header or footer"

The Page Count (<$lastpagenum>) variable ordinarily resets on a
file-by-file basis, but you can make it do otherwise.

Joe

Tammy Van Boening wrote:
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> Tammy Van Boening
> Engineering Technical Writer
> InsureWorx
> 303-729-7733
> tvanboening at insureworx.com
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> * Keep Smiling - At least until you get your own way
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> From: Tammy Van Boening [mailto:tvanboening at insureworx.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 11:42 AM
> To: techcomm-discuss at stcrmc.org
> Subject: [techcomm-discuss] Continuous Numbering in framemaker
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>  Oops - fat-fingered some numbers in my statement. see corrections 
> below. Thanks!
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> Hi All,
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> I am in the process of migrating existing draft documentation in Word 
> to final version documentation in Framemaker. The old Word 
> documentation was but a single file - the first page was reserved for 
> cover information, the second page was Word's TOC, and the remaining 
> pages were the content of the document. The old numbering scheme, 
> beginning with the first page was Page # of #, which for a single 
> document in Word, worked fine. In Framemaker, I have split up this 
> large document into three separate files - Cover File, TOC, and the 
> Chapter document. I have been asked to keep the numbering scheme the 
> same - Page # of Total Page Count. I know how to keep the numbering 
> continuous across the files, but the system variable that keeps total 
> page count is obviously on a per file basis. For example, the singe 
> Cover page file has no number, but the first page of the TOC says page

> 2 of 4 (because it is the second page in the book, and there are four 
> pages in the TOC total), so the next page says Page 3 of 4 and the
final page says Page 4 of 4.
> When I open the document chapter, it says Page 5 of 19, because the 
> first page of the content chapter is indeed the fifth page in the 
> book, but there are 19 pages in the Content chapter. What do I need to

> do to get this to number the same way as Word - if it's possible for 
> files in a book? I want the first page of the TOC to say page  2  of 
> 24, the second page to say page  3  of 24, etc. and I want the first 
> page of the Content Chapter to say Page 5 of 24, etc.
>
> TIA,
>
> TVB
>
> Tammy Van Boening
> Engineering Technical Writer
> InsureWorx
> 303-729-7733
> tvanboening at insureworx.com
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> * Keep Smiling - At least until you get your own way
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