Fixing Numbers in PDF Bookmarks

[Shmuel Wolfson]

I think the soft return is the simplest and most elegant solution.

Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson



William Abernathy wrote:
> Here's an annoyance I'm stumped on. I've been working on updating my 
> group's template, which is a unification of two work groups' templates.
>
> One group had chapter title paragraph tags that addressed chapter 
> numbering with  a simple auto-number, after which the writer was 
> required to enter a soft (linefeed) return to enter the chapter title. 
> The other group had a special frame on the First master page that 
> contained the chapter number, which would appear automatically, with 
> writers simply required to enter the chapter title in the adjacent 
> title line field. I proposed a simple alternative, which eliminated 
> the first group's required user input and the complexity of the second 
> group's extra master pages and paragraph tags. This was to use a 
> Chapter title paragraph tag that had the chapter number, a tab, and 
> the text.
>
> Would that life were so simple.
>
> The group decided that for readability, the chapter/appendix number 
> and the text should appear on the right margin. FrameMaker does not 
> like line feeds in the autonumber fields, so I accomplished this by 
> cunning subterkludge: I defined the Chapter and Appendix paragraph 
> tags as:
> "C:<$chapnum>< =0>< =0>< =0>< =0>< =0>[ and 46 spaces ]"
>
> The 46 spaces forced a new line, everything stuck to the right margin, 
> and peace and love ruled the stars...
>
> Until we output the thing to PDF. [Frame 7.x outputting to PDF 5.0 
> using Distiller 7.0 on Windows XP]
>
> The space-forced line feed results in repeated chapter numbers in the 
> PDF bookmarks. For example:
>
> 1 1 Chapter Title
> A A Appendix Title
>
> Does anyone know alternatives for:
> * Forcing a line feed in a chapter-heading paragraph format?
> * Suppressing this bizarre repeated numbering?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> --William
>
>
>
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