Figure numbers that span all chapters in a book

[Fred Ridder]

Setting up the paragraph autonumbering format is only one part of the process. To accomplish what you describe, you also have to set the Paragraph tab of the Numbering Properties dialog to "Continue Numbering from Previous Paragraph in Book" rather than "Restart Paragraph Numbering" (which is the default behavior). The easiest way to do this is to highlight the group of files that need to be changed in the book window, then right-clicking on the group and choosing Numbering Properties from the context menu.
 
Note that this properties setting affects all paragraph numbering in each file, and that the behavior of the two settings is not symmetrical. If you set "Restart...", *all* paragraph numberign will restart. But if you set the numbering properties to "Continue...", it is still possible to set up the paragraph numbering formats so that certain numbering counters are explicitly reset in each chapter.
 
Also note than many legacy FrameMaker templates use continuous numbering for figures and/or tables because in Frame versions prior to 6.0 there was no Numbering properties sheet. The default behavior was to continue numbering and you had to specifically design numbering formats and correctly apply the special paragraph tags to make any of the numbering restart. But when Frame 6.0 introduced the numbering properties sheet and the $chapnum and $volnum system variables, it became *much* easier to implement the chapter-item form of numbering that is generally considered to provide easier navigation to figures and tables in printed documents, and many templates were updated to that form of numbering.
 
-Fred Ridder 
 



From: edwardsdo at neb.rr.com
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Figure numbers that span all chapters in a book
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:52:59 -0600





Season's greetings, fellow Framers!
 
I'm using unstructured FM 8 on Windows XP, and I have a set of FM documents that currently identify figures with consecutive numbers that span all chapters of the book. For example, chapter 1 has figures 1–5, chapter 2 has figures 6–10, and chapter 3 has figures 11-15. I defined a new paragraph format in a different template (using a new paragraph name) that I thought matched the definition in the original FM documents, applied the current template to the original FM documents, renamed all paragraphs using the old paragraph format to the new format name, and regenerated the book. Now all figure numbers are getting reset to 1 at the start of each chapter. I'd like to keep the figure numbers that span all chapters of the book, but I can't determine how it was done in the original FM documents. The paragraph format I'm using has an Autonumber Format of F:Figure <n+1>: .  Ideas, anyone?
 
Thanks,
 
Doug Edwards 		 	   		  
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