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- From: bdowning@schunix.uucp (Bill Downing)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
- Subject: Re: Problem updating chapter numbers in multifile book
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.143813.27759@schunix.uucp>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 14:38:13 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.215340.27591@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <20875@acorn.co.uk> <1992Dec23.212948.11898@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- Organization: SCHUNIX Public Access Unix for Worcester County, MA, USA
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- In article <1992Dec23.212948.11898@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> ralph@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (Ralph Brandi) writes:
- >In article <20875@acorn.co.uk> mhardy@acorn.co.uk (Michael Hardy) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec21.215340.27591@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> ralph@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (Ralph Brandi) writes:
- >
- >>>>In article <1992Dec15.180057.732@alf.uib.no>, eystein@smyril.fi.uib.no (Eystein Dugstad) writes:
- >>>>|> FrameMaker won't let me update the chapter numbers in my miltifile book
- >
- >>>page numbering is reset and paragraph numbering continues. I have
- >>>tried this with small subsets and it occasionally works that way,
- >>>but when I get the whole book together, no dice. All chapters are
- >>>chapter 1. Now I can't even get small samples to work.
- >
- >>This problem is typically caused by the flows that make up your book either
- >>not having autoconnect turned on, or not having the same tag. Check this,
- >>and regenerate.
- >
- >Bingo!
- >
- >I thought it would be enough to set autoconnect on in the template
- >and apply the template, or to open a new file using the template and
- >cut-and-paste everything in. It turns out that autoconnect was
- >still off. Turning it on for each chapter and re-generating did
- >indeed fix the problem.
- >
-
- You might want to tell whoever's in charge of the FAQ posting to put
- this one in there...the problem seems to surface a lot...of course, it
- might already be in the FAQ...:-)
-
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