Re: Numbering Figures within a Chapter

[sherman_...@adobeforums.com]

Suggest that you use:

Figure<$chapnum>-<n+>\t

In Arnis sugggestion he shows F: which would result in F:<your caption>, my suggestion follows your question to have Figure 7-1

Make sure you have your numbering Properties dialog box is set with the correct chapter # for each chapter using your book.

[Avril_...@adobeforums.com]

Hi,

I have a chapter within a book which contains alot of photos, all of which i want to give a Figure number, ie Figure 7-1, 7-2 etc (7 being the chapter number). Please can someone help me out with how i automate this process as I will no doubt be adding more photos to the document and i don't want to have to manually re-number the figures throughout. I have tried several times to create a format, but it always ends up affecting the numbered lists which appear before and after the photographs.

I hope i have made some sense in explaining this!!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards
Avril Roberts

[Arnis_...@adobeforums.com]

Avril,

Use series numbers in your autonumbering. These are single characters
at the start of the auto-number followed by a colon, e.g.

C:<$chapnum>-<n+> for a chapter plus section number
F:<$chapnum>-<n+> for a figure number

These series numbers work independently of each other. See your FM
Manual or online help for more details.

[Arnis_...@adobeforums.com]

Watsein, do you even know what series numbering is and how it
works???? You've been using FM how long?

I strongly suggest that you read the FM manual "About Numbered and
Bulleted Lists" and pay close attention to the "Series Label" section
on p.117 of the latest FM7.x manual.

[Se...@adobeforums.com]

F: is a series label. FrameMaker's documentation is not great, and you don't know what a series label is called before you find out it's a series label, but "series label" is in the index of the online help, so you can get started there.

Cheers,

Sean

[Bill_S...@adobeforums.com]

wow... LOL!!!

Arnis' suggestion is indeed the correct one.

[Niels_Grund...@adobeforums.com]

And, ancedotally, beware of incompetent translators ;-} we had a run-in with an agency who admitted after the facts they hadn't worked on the .fm files we sent them: they'd used their very own conversion software to produce .doc files that exposed all the numbering definitions. Zealous French-speaking translator uses s/r to put a space before every colon ... with exactly the dire results Sherman accidentally predicts.

[Se...@adobeforums.com]

In my opinion, series lables are one of the truly great features of FrameMaker
numbering. So simple but so useful.

Yes, but it is difficult to find info on series labels in the documentation, so I see why many FrameMaker users miss the concept or have trouble with it.

Cheers,

Sean

[Peter...@adobeforums.com]

Yes, but it is difficult to find info on series labels in the documentation,
so I see why many FrameMaker users miss the concept or have trouble with
it.

Another concept may users have trouble with is searching the Internet for help and information resources for FrameMaker.

For example, these Google search turn up a lot of hits on the series numbering topic:

NOTE: Uppercase AND and uppercase OR, parentheses, and the quotes, are required for the searches to operate correctly.

* This one is useful to find resources that refer to both auto number and autonumber:

framemaker (auto AND number)

* This one finds resources for series labels, which FrameMaker formally refers to as series identifiers:

framemaker ("series label" OR "series identifier")

HTH
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Regards,

Peter Gold
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[Bill_S...@adobeforums.com]

Are we still debating this????

Arnis is *still* correct.

Sheesh.

[Avril_...@adobeforums.com]

Hi all, i would just like to say that i have now managed to get the Figure numbering to work correctly!! Many thanks. I did have trouble sourcing the information from the Help file, i usually only post here if i can't find the information in the help file. I used F: Figure <$chapnum>-<n+> and this has worked perfectly and not affected my other numbered lists.
Thanks again.
Avril

[Raymond...@adobeforums.com]

While we are on autonumbers, why don't my Figure numbers increment from chapter to chapter within a book? I have the same F:Figure <n+1>:/sn across all chapters of the book. The first figure in every chapter restarts at 1??

Thanks

[Art Campbell]

Raymond,
In your book file, you probably have para numbering set to restart for each chapter. Select all the chapters in which you want numbers to increment, right click, and set the Numbering properties to increment...

Art

[Raymond...@adobeforums.com]

Art
I believe you mean using 'Continue Numbering from Previous Paragraph in Book.' When I do, my heading numbers will not restart at the beginning of the new chapter. i.e. 2.1 will be 2.x depending on Chapter 1's last value of 1.x. Do I need to create new heading autonumber streams?

Thanks
Raymond

[Art Campbell]

The short answer is, yes, you should probably use different streams to track different elements. Makes life easier... So if your heads are using the H: stream, your figures F:, and so on, they won't step on each other.

Art