Frame Maker - Image caption

[Guest]

How can we add image caption in a Frame Maker document, as in a word document?

I have created a style called Image caption, where the font is bold. But there is no image number. Manually, I have added numbers. But the drawback is that if I insert another image in between the existing paragraphs, then I have to update the image numbers manually. Please let me know, if there is a way to create a Paragraph style, so that Image numbers are also updated automatically.

[Bob_Niland]

Assuming you want "Figure 123"

Format > Paragraph > Designer

Paragraph Tag: [ Image caption ]

Properties: [ Numbering ]

Autonumber Format:

[ F:Figure\ <n+> ]

"F:" specifiies counter F, so that other auto-numbered paragraphs won't disrupt caption numbers.

"\ " is a non-breaking space, useful for cross-referencing captions near right margins.

"<n+>" increments counter F, which starts at 0, so the first caption defaults to 1, depending on book numbering properties.

The auto-numbering works correctly if the caption paragraph is located:

• in normal Flow A,
• in a Table cell anchored to Flow A,
• in a text frame within an anchored frame, but only in the case where there is a single text frame containing a caption in that anchored frame, or
• in a table cell in a text frame in an anchored frame, also subject to the single-text-frame-caption rule

If you have more than one text frame in an anchored frame, they all get the same auto-number (up through FM9, anyway). This probably isn't a defect.

I don't know what happens if you use unanchored frames, as they are unwise for multiple more serious reasons.