Printed output generation question

[jkpalmer]

Hi,

Working on getting autonumber to work with h1, h2, and h3 when printing authored topics but not printing for "generated" topics.

I have changed h1, h2, and h3 in my "print" medium to have autonumbering
h1 is set to CH:{n+} -
h2 is set to CH:{n}.{n+} -
h3 is set to CH:{n}.{n}.{n+} -

I have created a h1, h2, and h3 class (called nonum) in my "print" medium to not have autonumbering

My PDF publication should have the following:

Title Page
Table of Contents - (h1 should NOT have auto numbering)
"authored topics" (all should have autonumbering)
Glossary - ("generated topic" - h1 should NOT have auto numbering)
Index - ("generated topic" - h1 should NOT have auto numbering)

I have the Title Page, Table of Contents, and "authored topics" working properly. My issue is with the Glossary and Index. They are both generating a header that appears as:
1 - Glossary
1 - Index

Where can I change these to use my style of h1.nonum?

Jim P.

[ChoccieMuffin]

The way to do this is to create topics for both your index and your glossary and insert the relevant proxies in the topics, rather than using the automatically generated items. I suspect you've already done that for your TOC because it comes after the title page, so it's exactly the same thing. In each topic add your "Index" or "Glossary" heading and apply h1.Nonum there.

As a little extra trick, and not something you even asked about, you could try this.
Rather than creating three styles (h1.Nonum, h2.Nonum and h3.Nonum) you can create a generic style called just .Nonum which you can apply to any heading you like. The generic style should just contain the single attribute that's different. That kind of thing helps to keep your stylesheet a bit easier to maintain. (I have .KeepWithNext and .PageBreakBefore that I can use to adjust the formatting for PDF outputs and I use those generic styles on headings or <p>s if I need to do a bit of tweaking.)

[BrianBXYPRO]

I have a compliment and a question.

I have changed h1, h2, and h3 in my "print" medium to have autonumbering
h1 is set to CH:{n+} -
h2 is set to CH:{n}.{n+} -
h3 is set to CH:{n}.{n}.{n+} -

I just wanted to say thank you! I've been struggling with getting the paragraph numbering in my print outputs working and this finally did the trick. And now my question. Several of the other threads I read say to do autonumbering like this:

H1 = CH:{chapnum}
H2 = CH:{chapnum}.{n+}
H3 = CH:{chapnum}.{n}.{n+}

However, when I try it this way I get this:

1 (Heading 1 in first topic)
1.1 (Heading 2 in first topic)
1.2
1.3
1.4
5 (Heading 1 in second topic)
1.6 (Heading 2 in second topic)
1.7
8 (Heading 1 in third topic)
1.9 (Heading 2 in third topic)
10 (Heading 1 in fourth topic)
1.11 (Heading 2 in fourth topic)
1.12
etc.

(It's a consistent pattern but not remotely what I want. ) So, other than to cause me grief what does the "{chapnum}" variable do? I've gone through Flare's docs (http://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare12/ ... amples.htm and http://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare12/ ... graphs.htm) and they say to use it but when I do so it never works right. I've also checked the TOC settings for the topics and they are correct.

Thanks in advance,
Brian

[SteveS]

Chapter numbers are reset whenever the build process encounters a new chapter in the TOC. To set chapters open the TOC, Open its properties dialog, and set the Chapter on the Autonumber tab.

jkpalmer's code looks to be what you need, it users the chapter number then a series of incrementing counters for each heading level. If, however, the chapter number increases you might need a different autonumber style (using the same autonumber variables) that resets the autonumbering back at one.

For example:

MultiLevelList.PNG

The code used to create this list is:

Code: Select all

.NewList
{
	mc-auto-number-format: 'A:{Gn=1}.0 ';
}

.FirstLevel
{
	mc-auto-number-format: 'A:{Gn+}.0 ';
}

.NextLevel
{
	margin-left: 5em;
	mc-auto-number-format: 'A:{Gn}.{Gn+} ';
}

Hope this helps

[BrianBXYPRO]

Steve,
Thanks for responding so quickly!

Open its properties dialog, and set the Chapter on the Autonumber tab.

In my TOC I have all chapters >1 set to Increment number. I can set Chapter 1 to "1" or Increment number and it works either way.

jkpalmer's code looks to be what you need, it users the chapter number then a series of incrementing counters for each heading level.

That's correct -- his solution work beautifully. I guess I'm just curious why every single example on the Flare's autonumbering examples page (http://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare12/ ... amples.htm) and on the forums (e.g., viewtopic.php?f=6&t=18647&p=97918) that use the "{pagenum}" variable do not work for me.

Brian

[BrianBXYPRO]

I finally figured out how to get the "chapnum" variable to work by opening my TOC in the internal text editor instead of double-clicking it and using Flare's default TOC editor. Once I saw it there I realized I had misunderstood Flare's documentation. Here's the now-working version of my TOC:

chapnum-issue-fixed071116.png

My misunderstanding was that the "BreakType" parameter only needed to be set once per section. In other words, like this:

Chapter 1: Break Type on the Printed Output tab set to Chapter Break and Chapter Number on the Auto-number tab reset to 1
Chapter 2: Break Type on the Printed Output tab set to None and Chapter Number on the Auto-number tab set to Increment number
Chapter 3: Break Type on the Printed Output tab set to None and Chapter Number on the Auto-number tab set to Increment number
etc.
Appendix A: Break Type on the Printed Output tab set to Chapter Break and Chapter Number on the Auto-number tab reset to 1
Appendix B: Break Type on the Printed Output tab set to None and Chapter Number on the Auto-number tab set to Increment number
Appendix C: Break Type on the Printed Output tab set to None and Chapter Number on the Auto-number tab set to Increment number
etc.

Now that I know, it works fine now.

Brian