Indexing a book of books revisited

[Harding, Dan]

This one has me stumped. Filenames below simplified for the sake of brevity.

FM 10/Win 7 Enterprise, 64-bit.

I have a master book (BIG.book).

Within it I have 3 books (A.book, B.book, C.book) and a generated index (BIGIX.fm).

Within each of those 3 books are individual chapter FM files. At each of the book levels, I have the numbering settings set to "Read from file" for all attributes, however when I go to "Update book" to generate the master index, the page numbers and footnote numbers for the individual FM files all get renumbered to continue sequentially from the previous chapter.

I don't have that numbering setting set ANYWHERE for any of the .book or .fm files. Why is generating the index renumbering anything at all?

Even if I disable "Numbering" in the "Update Book" dialog, it still changes the page numbers and footnote numbers to inherit from the preceding file.

What gives?

Dan Harding
Technical Editorial Specialist
University of Illinois Tax School
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