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Confusion about counters in autonumber format in FM
Subject:Confusion about counters in autonumber format in FM From:"Norcross, Amanda" <Amanda -dot- Norcross -at- kla-tencor -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 16 Dec 2004 09:35:48 -0800
I am frustrated with an autonumber format for a paragraph in Framemaker
because the corresponding heading number is not displaying correctly. I
am working from templates that I did not create so the problem could be
either that the template creator did not know what they were doing or
that I do not have much experience with creating autonumber formats. To
my inexperienced eye, the autonumbering in the templates appears to be
unnecessarily complicated.
Heading 4 is the heading that I am trying to add autonumbering to. The
levels of headings are as follows:
Heading 4
The autonumber format I thought would work is:
c:<n>.< >< ><n>.<n>.<n>.<n+>\t
I wanted this to display as:
3.4.1.1.1
3.4.1.1.2
Etc.
It's rather odd because a series of Heading 4's, using the autonumber
format above, looks as follows:
3.4.1.1.1
3.4.1.1.1
3.4.1.1.2
3.4.1.1.3
Why is the heading only incrementing after the second one in the series?
In other words, why isn't it:
3.4.1.1.1
3.4.1.1.2
3.4.1.1.3
3.4.1.1.4
I am not looking for suggestions on how to generally improve the
autonumbering - I wish I could, but I just don't have the time. I only
want suggestions on how to make the autonumbering work for Heading 4.
Any thoughts?
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