Book pagination confusion

[Tim Pann]

As I play around with different settings it’s become clear that when I set a file’s page numbering to “Continue Numbering From Previous Page in Book,” Framemaker forces the page numbering format (Numeric, Roman, etc.) to be that of the previous file.

 

When I set my TOC’s page number format to Roman, I didn’t select “Continue Numbering From Previous Page in Book,” I set “First Page #” to 3, which is safe because the Title file is before it and it’s always going to be two pages.

 

The next file after the TOC is Chap1, and I want that and subsequent chapters’ number format to be Numeric. The only way I can do that is by setting Chap1’s number format to Numeric AND set its “First Page #” to 7 (the TOC is currently 4 pages). If I instead select “Continue Numbering From Previous Page in Book,” Frame forces Chap1’s pages to be Roman.

 

This seems inappropriate. I can’t both continue numbering from the previous file AND change the number format? Very odd. I don’t like that Frame forces me to set Chap1’s first page at 7 rather than looking at the previous file.

 

Tim

 

From: Roger Shuttleworth [mailto:rshuttleworth at avbasesystems.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 9:23 AM
To: Tim Pann
Subject: Re: Book pagination confusion

 

Hi Tim

If you still have not got this sorted out, give me a call and I will walk you through it.

Basically:

1.	Open the book and all files.
2.	In the book window, right-click the title file and choose Numbering. On the Page tab, set it to Read from File (that is, none).
3.	Right-click the TOC, select Numbering, and on the Page tab set it to whatever form you want.
4.	Select the first chapter file, and set that one to Arabic, and start at 1.
5.	Shift-select all the following chapters and set them to Arabic, continue from previous file.

You don't need to set anything in the individual document window.

Hope this helps.
Roger


Roger Shuttleworth
Technical Documentation
AV-BASE Systems Inc.
1000 Air Ontario Drive, Suite 200
London, Ontario
N5V 3S4
Tel. 519 691-0919 ext. 330

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From: Tim Pann [mailto:TPann at telecomsys.com]
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:22:57 -0400
Subject: Book pagination confusion

Frame 9 unstructured.

 

I’m not terribly accomplished with pagination, numbering etc. across a book. I have a book now that’s got 11 chapters, a TOC, and a title page. As I’m scrambling to finalize it for a training last night, I realize to my horror that the TOC is displaying page numbers in Roman.

 

Then I see that the pages on the files are also Roman.

 

I tried several times to fix this and finally was able to but not without finding my page numbers not respond to my selecting continue page numbering and Arabic numbers.

 

I know there are two places to set numbering etc. – using theh Format menu while in the file, and right-clicking the file as displayed in the book pane and selecting Numbering. I was trying both and getting very conflicting results. I’m just very confused now. Somehow I ended up with the entire book set to roman numerals, and I KNOW I did not do that purposefully.

 

I cannot find a good resource that explains exactly how to do numbering across a book. Any suggestions?

 

Thanks

Tim

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