Stuck on Figure Autonumbering in a Multi-Document Chapter

[Pinkham, Jim]

Thanks to all. I think you probably nailed it as a flow issue, Jim. We inherited the document in which I was working from one of our offshore divisions, so it was not something we built and originated in house. I took the radical surgery approach, since the file was small. I left the new paragraph formats intact, but deleted all the pages in the chapter, began with a new first page, and rebuilt from scratch. Fortunately, this first subchapter had only 4 pages, so the task wasn't insurmountable. When I built the pages as we normally do, inserting the anchored frames beneath a thin line on the empty page, inserting the graphics into the anchored frame, putting the figure title as the next paragraph beneath and outside of the anchored frame, there were no numbering issues at all. 

I appreciate the help and insights from all.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Owens [mailto:jowens at magma.ca] 
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 2:54 PM
To: Pinkham, Jim
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Stuck on Figure Autonumbering in a Multi-Document Chapter

I've just tested this. For what it's worth, if your Figure Titles are not in anchored frames in the main flow (for example, if you've placed them in graphics frames containing text frames for the captions, or in text frames containing anchored frames for the graphics), the autonumbering isn't incremented from one frame to the next unless you manually link the frames into a flow.

Pinkham, Jim wrote:
> This, too, was worth a shot, but did not resolve the issue. 
> 
> Appreciate the idea,
> Jim
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Owens [mailto:jowens at magma.ca]
> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 12:14 PM
> To: Pinkham, Jim
> Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: Stuck on Figure Autonumbering in a Multi-Document Chapter
> 
> Your Figure number contains a second counter which you aren't incrementing or displaying (< >).  It's a shot in the dark, but what happens if you remove the second counter?
> 
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> Pinkham, Jim wrote:
>> Hi, Art --
>>
>> Thanks for all of these ideas -- all well worth checking. Here are the early results:
>>
>> * The \+ produces the non-breaking hyphen.
>> * I deleted all unused paragraph formats except Ch. 1, which has all the formats my normal books require. The autonumbered paragraphs in Ch. 1 use only the A, H, and U numbering streams.
>> * I created a FigTest format for Ch. 4 and assigned in a Q: numbering stream. Everything still turns out as Fig. 4-1 (for all four figures in this sub-chapter).
>> * I imported the paragraph formats for Ch. 4 into all of the other chapters and updated the book. Still no luck.
>>
>> I remain stymied but hopeful for more ideas.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Art Campbell [mailto:art.campbell at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 11:36 AM
>> To: Pinkham, Jim
>> Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
>> Subject: Re: Stuck on Figure Autonumbering in a Multi-Document 
>> Chapter
>>
>> A couple things to check:
>>
>> * This may be a minor point or a typo, but your Figure tag definition doesn't include the - that you mention in text... (>  F:Fig.\ <$chapnum>\+<n+>< >\t).
>>
>> * Is it possible that another tag, somewhere in the book is using the
>> F: numbering stream?
>> You may be able to check that by modifying that tag just in the files that make up  Chapter 4, maybe changing it to f: or any other unused letter.
>>
>> * And you've applied the same set of tags to all affected files using Import Formats?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Pinkham, Jim <Jim.Pinkham at voith.com> wrote:
>>> I'm running FM 7.1p116 on Windows XP SP-2. Maybe, it's just Friday, but I've got a book that includes landscape pages with different sizes than the standard pages. Accordingly, the chapters containing the landscape pages are broken into separate files. I'm working on the first chapter, Chapter 4, where this is happening, and my autonumbering is giving me fits. My chapter numbers and heading numbers are working just fine across the multiple files, but my figure titles all say Fig. 4-1, despite my attempt to follow my trusty O'Keefe and Loring handbook faithfully. I don't have any tables in this chapter, so that's not an issue -- at least not yet.
>>>
>>>  Here's the scheme:
>>>
>>>  Bildtitel (Figures)
>>>
>>>  F:Fig.\ <$chapnum>\+<n+>< >\t
>>>
>>>  Überschrift 1. Ebene (Heading1)
>>>
>>>  A:<$chapnum>\t
>>>
>>>  Überschrift 2. Ebene (Heading2)
>>>
>>>  H:<$chapnum>.<n+>< >\t
>>>
>>>  Tabellentitel (Table Title)
>>>
>>>  U:Tab.\ <$chapnum>\+<n+>\t
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Within the book, I have my numbering for this section of Chapter 4 as follows:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Chapter  -- use same number as previous file
>>>
>>>  Page -- continue numbering from previous page in book
>>>
>>>  Paragraph -- continue numbering from previous paragraph in book
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  I've deleted all unused styles in these two document files, just to make sure there's no other paragraph format that may not be playing nice with my numbering.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  I suspect I'm missing something obvious. Hopefully, one of you will see it. Anyway, any help on this will be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Thanks,
>>>
>>>  Jim
>>
>> --
>> Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com
>>  "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson  No disclaimers apply.
>>  DoD 358
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