Line numbering tables in FM11?

[De Rosier, Edward]

Hi Tori,

After sending my note, and before deleting the test file, I also placed the CellNumbered paragraph tag in place of body text paragraphs between tables.  The numbering and renumbering were consistent inside and outside the tables.

This might be applied to Headings and other paragraph types.  I see no problem with applying the Autonumber Format to other paragraph tags, including all paragraph tags within your documents.

This was just a wild suggestion that I meant to stimulate ideas.  It works in FrameMaker-9.

Ed DeRosier

-----Original Message-----
From: Tori Muir [mailto:tmuir at spot-on-creative.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 12:55 PM
To: De Rosier, Edward
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Line numbering tables in FM11?

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
>
>
>