Problem
I have documents that start with a tag called ‘ChapTitle’ and some that start with Heading1.
The reference pages are set up so that pages with ‘ChapTitle’ on them will use the ‘First’ master page. This has a header with the chapter number in it. Pages starting with Heading1 are Right/Left and don’t have a chapternumber.
Every file in the book is set to ‘Continue Numbering from Previous Chapter in book’.
The chapter numbers increment correctly.
The document with a Heading1 tag should show the numbering ‘3.1’. It doesn’t, it shows ‘4.1’.? The chapter number has incremented.
Why is this?
Solution 1
It sounds like you’ve got two numbering systems going on. One uses <$Chapnum>, the other uses paragraph numbers instead.
You can influence the <$Chapnum> numbering with the Format-Document-Numbering dialog, tab ‘Chapter’
You can influence the paragraph numbering with the Format-Document-Numbering dialog, tab ‘Paragraph’.
Check the Numbering properties of the ChapTitle and the Heading1 paragraph tags. You should use the same numbering system in all para tags that have a paragraph number.
Solution 2
Ah – solved my own problem with help of ‘Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured Framemaker’.
Set the numbering to continue from previous page in book. I don’t know why this wasn’t set in my original template.
Solution 3
Ok, I’ve found out why it was going wrong.
It seems that the first document in the book using chapnum has to have an override setting the chapnum to start at 1 (this document being the third in the book, after the cover and ToC).
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