Dual page numbering

[Art Campbell]

John,

You have two options, plus a few corner case methods.

The easiest would be:

In the master page, either insert a <$chapnum> variable before the
Current Page # (that contains <$curpagenum>) variable, or you can
modify the Current Page # definition to include both:
<$chapnum>-<$curpagenum>.

Then propagate the modified file changes to your other files with
Import Formats.

In the Book file, set the Chapter numbering property to increase in
all but the first file, which you hard wire to 1. The Page numbering
property for each file in the book should probably stay as you have
it, to continue incrementing, assuming that  you're using sequential
pages.

Art

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On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:35 PM, John Sgammato <jsgammato at imprivata.com> wrote:
> Our trainer wants to include both chapter-oriented numbering AND
> absolute page numbering in training materials derived from my manuals.
> It looks like in FM8 (unstructured) I can set page numbering to be one
> or the other.
> Is there a way to have it both ways? Some sort of user variable that I
> can set to restart with each chapter while the page numbering continues
> from previous? Or is it just a limitation of FrameMaker 8 that I can one
> or the other but not both?
>
> John Sgammato
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> Imprivata, Inc.
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