Re: a question for FrameMaker experts

Subject: Re: a question for FrameMaker experts
From: voxwoman <voxwoman -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: Becca <becca -at- di -dot- org>
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 21:04:15 -0400

Becca,
Format > Document > Numbering

in the Paragraph tab, select "Continue numbering from previous paragraph in
book"


I think that should work.

-Wendy


On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Becca <becca_price -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:

> I'm taking a class in FrameMaker. My team has a project that consists of
> a book of 8 separate files, plus a ToC and an Index. We've got the page
> numbers to number sequentially across all files in a book, but we can't
> seem to figure out how to get the figure numbers to number sequentially
> across the book - each file starts with figure 1, and then numbers
> sequentially within the file. We're using the tag f:Figure (n+) for our
> automatic figure numbering. We could get them to number by section number
> (1-1, 1-2, 2-1, 2-2) but we don't want that... we want them to number 1, 2,
> 3, 4, and so on.
>
> Can anyone help me figure out what the automatic numbering tag or variable
> should be?
>
> many thanks!
>
> -becca
>
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