[Framers] Table and Figure Numbering

[Peter Gold]

You're absolutely correct! Except that tables and figures aren't numbered!
The paragraphs that are used by tables as their titles, have numbering
properties. Figures have no numbering properties, but the paragraphs in
which figure frames are anchored do have those properties.

So, for all Vulcans, and others who share Spock-ian mindsets, as I do, it
makes perfect logical sense: If you view a FM document's text flow as a
family tree, a genome, a stream of paragraphs whose formats have many
properties that are shared among the relatives and descendents, that
comprise the document's behaviors, it makes sense.

Until I started responding to your raising the issue this way, I never paid
attention to why FM made sense to me over all these years. Thanks for the
inspiration for me to clarify explicitly what I've just been doing
intuitively for so long. Really! Of course, now, if I stay consciously
aware of all this, it could be paralyzing when I try to write, like looking
down while on a tightrope. ;)



On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 1:39 PM Craig, Alison GLI/CA <
acraig at greenlightinnovation.com> wrote:

> Thanks Lynne.
>
> It would never have occurred to me that Paragraph numbering controlled
> sequential Table/Figure numbering.
>
> Alison
>
>
> Alison Craig
> Technical Writer, Engineering, Greenlight Innovation
> ===========================================
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Framers <framers-bounces+acraig=
> greenlightinnovation.com at lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of Lynne A. Price
> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2021 11:10 AM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: [Framers] Table and Figure Numbering
>
> Alison,
>
>      If there are chapters or appendices with no tables or figures, you
> still need to set Paragraph numbering to Continue Numbering from
> Previous Paragraph in Book. If you leave the default setting in those
> chapters, they will start the numbering over. Those chapters will look
> fine, but the first one that does have a table will continue from the
> preceding chapter, not the preceding chapter with tables.
>
>      --Lynne
>
> On 8/26/2021 10:51 AM, A Craig wrote:
> > I assume I am missing something really simple, but I can't get the Table
> and Figure numbering in the Appendices to pick up where they left off in
> the Chapters.
> > The first Appendix with a Table / Figure starts over at 1 and thereafter
> the numbers are cumulative within all the Appendices.
> > What setting am I missing?
>
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