FrameMaker 6: Beyond the Basics

A Note on Book File Numbering

Now that you have some autonumbering techniques under your belt, this is a good place to discuss book file settings for numbering. As mentioned earlier, you’ll use document Numbering properties for volume, chapter, and paragraph to set up book file numbering. Although this chapter doesn’t thoroughly cover volume numbering, you can take what you learned about chapter numbering and apply the same basic concepts.

If you used the <$chapnum> Building Block in autonumbering, use Format > Document > Numbering > Chapter to control the chapter number when the file is included in a book. This is true whether you use <$chapnum> as a Building Block by itself or along with any of the other available Building Blocks for autonumbers. ...