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- From: wiseman@tellabs.com (Jeff Wiseman)
- Subject: How to use variable text in autonumbered para's
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.004536.15328@tellab5.tellabs.com>
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:45:36 GMT
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- I have a document that is composed of several 1-3 page sections, each section
- of which is assigned a unique, non-consecutive number (e.g. TN-RGT-03 or
- UT-FT-01). Part of each section consists of a special series of paragraphs
- that need to also have unique and possibly non-consecutive numbers based on the
- section number (e.g. TN-RGT-03-01 or UT-FT-01-aa).
-
- The goal is to be able to generate a List Of Paragraphs file that has all of
- these special individual paragraph numbers in it along with the section numbers
- (and possibly section heading text). The goal is also to have the
- original document in as easy to use template as possible since inexperienced
- or infrequent framemaker users will be using it (e.g. the use of cross
- references is out unless they can somehow be programmed into the template's
- autonumbering scheme).
-
- Assuming that only paragraph text or numbering is going to be transported
- through a generate of a list of paragraphs, it seems that the autonumbering of
- the individual paragraphs need to somehow "pull-in" the section number as a
- prefix. Is this possible? If not, is there some alternative way of achieving
- this? It would be a cinch if everything was sequentially autonumbered but they
- are not.
-
- If you could put user variable names into autonumber formats, that would work
- too but this doesn't appear possible.
-
- Any ideas?
-
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