From: hughg@bnr.co.uk (H.J.Griffiths)
Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
Subject: Re: Autonumbering page numbers for chapter TOC
Date: 7 Jan 93 13:07:48 GMT
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It ought to be possible to number a book:
i, ii, 1, 2, 3, 4, iii, iv
and
i, ii, 1-1, 1-2, 2-1, 2-2, iii, iv
I suspect that Frame needs to recognise two-layer page numbering so that
you simply pick that for the real chapters of your book and normal page
numbers for the rest and then nothing clever is required because there
are two independent sets of page numbers. Similarly it should have a
different number series for each permissible format so that even normal
numbering works because it recognises the roman sequence is different.
After all who ever wants i, ii, 3, 4, v, vi ??

I suspect that the same goes for paragraph numbering.

With Regard to book files ( Sun FrameMaker 3 ):

It ought to be possible in any frame document to specify that any or all of
Master Pages, Reference Pages, Paragraph formats, character formats,
table formats, variables, ... come from a specific file, or from the book file.
It should be possible to add extra pages or formats in the document file to
override the default. This would reduce disk space used - a real problem - and
reduce maintenance of templates. I would actually prefer that the book file
merely contained a list of files and other true control information, and never
held any document related stuff such as paragraph formats - i.e. have a second
control file (optional) to hold Master Pages etc. It should be possible to
process the book file with awk/shell without converting it to a mif file.

It should be possible to specify a restricted view onto
the format lists to be used as default within a document.
This feature would be extremely useful - often you have specific
formats used on the master pages, etc which the author never uses, but
which you keep in the catalog so that if the Master Page or control
section is mutilated then it can be put back without having to get the 
formats from somewhere else (possibly another site!)

The Print dialogue box should be able to remember filenames instead of
always generating a new one - real hassle with fmprint/fmbatch where
you actually end up specifying that the printer is a file and trapping it
in the print script.

It should be possible to spell check or search a complete document in one go,
files should Open if a problem is found, the document dictionary should be
common to all files in the document - probably need a merge facility to allow
multiple authors (it may be that sometimes you need to restrict some things
to a specific file, but this should be the exception as far as frame is 
concerned).

It should be possible to produce a single frame file containing the entire
document (uneditable) - I suspect this might be in frame 4.

There should be an fmcopy command that will copy a complete document.

fmbatch should support SaveAs on a book to mean SaveAs for each file in
the document - you simply specify output directory and filetype suffix.



         hughg
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