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- From: bjz@sei.cmu.edu (Barbara Zayas)
- Subject: Re: Page numbering in generated files
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.230438.8182@sei.cmu.edu>
- Organization: Software Eng. Inst.;Carnegie-Mellon U.; Pittsburgh, PA 15213 _USA_
- References: <GERRY.92Nov6163012@onion.cmu.edu> <1992Nov9.142258.11713@den.mmc.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 23:04:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.142258.11713@den.mmc.com> mwightma@t4rta-gw.den.mmc.com (Mike Wightman) writes:
- >In article <GERRY.92Nov6163012@onion.cmu.edu>, gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes:
- >|> Today, I started what will be a large document. I decided that this
- >|> document will be numbered on a per chapter basis, like the FrameMaker
- >|> manuals, you know, 1-1, 1-2, ..., 2-1, 2-2...
- >|>
- >|> So, I set up a running header/footer and the page numbers appeared
- >|> properly. I created a book file and hey! it still worked properly.
- >|> Then, I set up the TOC file. To make a long story short, it appears
- >|> that to get the chapter number to preceed the page number in the TOC
- >|> file (and all other generated files), you have to manually insert the
- >|> chapter number in the file setup dialog window (from the book file).
- >
- >No, you do not have to insert the chapters manually. In the book file,
- >Go to each section and use Set Up File (under the File heading in the
- >book). This will allow you to restart page numbering, paragraph numbering
- >and also allow you to include prefix and suffixes to the page numbering in
- >generated files.
- >
- >So for section 2, you would place "2-" in the prefix.
-
- But this is still a manual process in that each time the
- chapter numbering changes, the individual chapter prefixes
- must updated (by hand) the set up file window from the book.
- You'll need to do this for EACH chapter that's affected by
- the reordering or addition/deletion of new/existing chapters.
-
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