single character page numbering (with no hyphen)

[Ken Poshedly]

Ouch, not so hard!!!

I'd heard from a few others about the Master Pages issue and will 
check into that when I get to the office this morning. (It's coming 
up on 6:30 a.m. here and I leave by 7 to get there by 8:30 a.m. -- a 
53-mile jaunt).

-- Kenpo in metro Atlanta


At 02:58 AM 2/16/2010, Combs, Richard wrote:
>Ken, if you were here right now, I'd put on my chrome Patton helmet, 
>slap you upside the head, and bark, "Snap out of it, soldier!" But 
>that's probably just the adult beverages talking.
>
>Stop looking at Format This and Format That, and actually 
>_look_at_the_footers_ on your master pages. I'm guessing they 
>contain either " -#" or "<$chapnum>-#" (sans quotes, of course). 
>Delete the "-" (or "<$chapnum>-"), and you're good to go.
>
>But remind yourself not to import page layouts from a chapter file 
>to your frontmatter files. If you're going to use folio numbering 
>(chapter#-page#) for your chapters and traditional roman numbering 
>(i, ii, etc.) for your frontmatter, then you have to use different 
>master pages for the frontmatter files.
>
>Richard
>
>
>----------
>From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com on behalf of Ken Poshedly
>Sent: Mon 2/15/2010 7:14 PM
>To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
>Subject: single character page numbering (with no hyphen)
>
>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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