single character page numbering (with no hyphen)

[Steve Johnson]

I'm not sure what you're doing wrong but hopefully this will help...
Our TOCs are set up this way and first, go to the master page and find
the page number. We define ours as a variable with this value:

<$curpagenum>

You should define the page numbering format at the book level, so from
the book, right-click the TOC, click Numbering, click the Page tab,
and make sure it's set for roman numerals.

Although this sounds like what you're doing, something is not right or
it would be working for you.

Finally, it doesn't make any difference if, in the Numbering dialog
box, you have something entered in the Chapter tag. That won't
automatically insert a hyphen in your TOC.

Save the changes to the book and regenerate.

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Ken Poshedly <poshedly at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> FM8.0 on a Windows Vista platform
>
> I'm sure there's a simple answer for this, but I've really tried all
> I can think of and can't seem to find a way to get rid of the
> preceding hyphen for a page number within a footer.
>
> Like it or not, I'm trying to place just a single, lower-case Roman
> numeral in the footer of my TOC. So with the file open and Master
> Pages view selected, I choose Format > Headers & Footers > Insert Page #
>
> What I get is a hyphen preceding the pound-sign variable or
> placeholder or whatever it is.
>
> I've checked Format > Document > Numbering and tried to make sure
> there is nothing in the Chapter box.
>
> I've checked Format > Paragraph Designer > Numbering (just to see if
> a hyphen is included in the numbering equation) but there is no
> numbering scheme to found there at all.
>
> I've checked Special > Variable > Edit Definition and deleted the
> unnecessary building blocks for Current Page # (leaving only
> <$curpagenum> with no preceding hyphen) and, for whatever reason,
> that didn't work.
>
> Note that in the rest of the book, I do use a chapter number with
> hyphen with page number combo. But I don't want it that way in the
> TOC and I don't want to designate the TOC as section 0. No comments,
> please, on my choice of document or numbering decisions.
>
> So short of actually typing in an i and an ii and so on, what else to do?
>
> -- Kenpo in Atlanta
>
>
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