[Framers] FM2019 Volume and Chapter Numbering

[Lynne A. Price]

Winfried,
     I agree with you about avoiding chapnum, etc. You are correct that 
using counters is more flexible because it allows multiple chapters, 
sections, or volumes to appear either in separate documents or grouped 
into one. Furthermore, I find using counters easier to maintain since 
all details are defined in the paragraph formats and there is no need to 
set document numbering properties in addition. The paragraph catalog has 
to be maintained in any case.
     By the way, I worked on a project in which a thousand-page book 
might have close to a hundred appendices. There were lots of 
cross-references between files. Updating the book took many, many hours 
when each appendix was in a separate file and a tenth of that time when 
groups of related adjacent appendices were placed into a single file, 
reducing the number of files in the book to about 15.
     --Lynne

On 1/7/2020 12:40 AM, Reng Winfried wrote:
> I do not use the chapnum placeholder, as I want to be free to
> have several chapters in a single file.


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