A stubborn table numbering ghost

[Avraham Makeler]

Ok, forget it..., I should have done an 'Update Book'. That definitely
helps.
But it remains a mystery why 'Update Book' was necessary to get the right
table  numbering in the appendixes but not necessary to get the right table
 numbering in the chapters.

avi



On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Avraham Makeler <amakeler at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>      RE:   A stubborn table numbering ghost
>
> Using FM 8.
>
> I received an API document with a large number of software structures
> spread over a number of chapters and appendixes. Each software structure is
> held in an FM table. Each structure table has its own section number and its
> own numbered table caption (title). Since IMO the table title is superfluous
> (since each structure anyway also has its own section title + num), and
> since anyway there are a number of tables with missing titles or wrong
> numbering, I decided just to remove all table titles of structures.
>
>
>
> Later in the book, in one of the later appendixes (F), there are a few
> tables that rightly deserve a table title - so I am leaving them there. What
> is peculiar is that in spite of having deleted almost all earlier table
> captions, the first table in the Appendix F insists on still starting at
> Table 38, the same number as it did before I deleted almost all the earlier
> table titles. It should start at 2 (since there is now only one remaining
> earlier table). I have checked that the deleted table titles did not remain,
> but invisible. I checked this by enabling one here and there (in the
> *chapters*), and sure enough, it starts at 2, as expected. Also, if I insert
> a new table in any one of the chapters (after Table 1), the new table starts
> at 2, as expected.
>
>
>
> Further, the wrong numbering occurs also if I insert a new table in any one
> of the appendixes; except that from Appendix C, the new tables also start at
> 38, whereas between Appendix A and Appendix B incl. the new tables start at
> 28.
>
>
>
> Anybody got an idea where all the ghost table captions are?
>
>
>
> TIA
>
>
>
> - avi
>