Line numbering tables in FM11?

[Tori Muir]

Client wants *every* line across the whole book to be numbered 
contiguously. Having the cell numbers out of step with the others would 
not be acceptable.

Tori Muir
tmuir at spot-on-creative.com | 650.430.8674
www.spot-on-creative.com


On 2/25/13 12:09 PM, De Rosier, Edward wrote:
> Hi Tori,
>
> You said:
>>   Sooo... just popped $400 to upgrade to FM11, solely for the line
>>   numbering.  However,  we're working on a set of engineering specs that
>>   contains many huge tables, and Frame isn't numbering any lines in the
>>   tables.
>>
>>   Is this just the way it works?  Or am I missing some setting that would
>>   add line numbers corresponding to text in tables? This is a killer issue
>>   for this project, and it Frame can't do it we'll have to resort back to
>>   our previous method of putting hard-coded line numbers on the master
>>   pages -- which client doesn't like because then every page has the same
>>   numbers.
> Your description of line numbering in tables did not describe how you are using those numbers.  My writing group uses a paragraph tag set that we named CellNumbered1 and CellNumbered.
> We are on FrameMaker-9 with Windows-7.
>
> The critical part of building of the Autonumber Format is as follows:
>
> C:<n=1>.\t
> and
> C:<n+>.\t
>
> I tested these just now with three successive tables.  I added CellNumbered1 to the top cell of a column and then added
> CellNumbered to several cells below in the same column and in multiple columns within a table.
>
> I continued the CellNumbered tag in the following table.
>
> In the third table, I returned to the use of CellNumbered1 to the top cell of a column and CellNumbered to several cells below.
>
> The numbering of the paragraphs was as expected whether the additional paragraphs were within a cell or in separate cells.  The numbering continued across tables and was restarted as expected.
>
> If your requirements are different, perhaps you could give more details of your needs.
>
> Ed DeRosier
> Senior Technical Writer
> Anritsu Company
> Morgan Hill, California
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