Auto-numbering figures across files

[Fred Ridder]

Two things to check:

 

First and foremost, are you doing an Update Book operation after you set the numbering properties in the book file? Any changes you specify in the book file are "staged" until the next time you do an Update Book, which is the only time that FrameMaker sequentially scans and updates the page and paragraph numbering in all the chapter files. 

Second, you need to examine the autonumber properties for the *other* paragraph tags in your chapters in addition to the figure caption tag. Pay particular attention to the chapter title tag, which could be resetting the "F" numbering at teh start of each chapter regardless of the book-level "continue from previous file" setting. Look for any other paragraph tag that uses the "F:" label and has something like < =0> as the specified number format. (By way of explanation, the space after the opening angle bracket indicates that the autonumber should not display the value of this particualr numbering digit and the "=0" resets the counter value to 0 so that the first figure caption will increment the value to 1.)

-Fred Ridder

 
> From: emhoffh at Software-Answers.com
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 16:06:50 -0500
> Subject: Auto-numbering figures across files
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I am having a heck of a time trying to get my figure numbering to increase across files in a book. For example, in chapter 1, if my last graphic was Figure 1, then in chapter 2 when when I insert the caption for my first figure, I want it to be labeled Figure 2. I have set the Document Properties for Paragraph Numbering to "Continue from Previous File in Book" but that is not helping; in every chapter, the figure numbering is starting over again.
> 
> The Autonumber Format is turned on for my Caption paragraph tag as: F:Figure <n+>.\sn
> 
> I don't understand what I'm missing here. The autonumbering should allow you to have a cumulative figure number throughout the book, shouldn't it?
> 
> Please help me if you can! Thanks!
> 
> (I'm using FrameMaker 8 and the unstructured formatting.)
> 
> 
> Heidi A. Emhoff
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