Chapter numbers

[Alastair Dent]

Ok, I've found out why it was going wrong.

It seems that the first document in the book using chapnum has to have an override setting the chapnum to start at 1 (this document being the third in the book, after the cover and ToC).

-----Original Message-----
From: Harro de Jong [mailto:Harro.deJong at triviewgroup.com] 
Sent: 13 August 2013 11:05
To: Alastair Dent; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Chapter numbers

Alastair Dent wrote:
 
> I have documents that start with a tag called 'ChapTitle' and some 
> that start with Heading1.
> 
> The reference pages are set up so that pages with 'ChapTitle' on them 
> will use the 'First' master page. This has a header with the chapter 
> number in it. Pages starting with Heading1 are Right/Left and don't 
> have a chapternumber
> 
> Every file in the book is set to 'Continue Numbering from Previous 
> Chapter in book'.
> 
> The chapter numbers increment correctly.
> 
> The document with a Heading1 tag should show the numbering '3.1'. It 
> doesn't, it shows '4.1'.  The chapter number has incremented.
> 
> Why is this?

It sounds like you've got two numbering systems going on. One uses <$Chapnum>, the other uses paragraph numbers instead.
You can influence the <$Chapnum> numbering with the Format-Document-Numbering dialog, tab 'Chapter'
You can influence the paragraph numbering with the Format-Document-Numbering dialog, tab 'Paragraph'.

Check the Numbering properties of the ChapTitle and the Heading1 paragraph tags. You should use the same numbering system in all para tags that have a paragraph number. 

Harro de Jong