Page count /numbering issue

[Robbie26593]

Hello,

I have a document that needs to have the page number increment only on every left page.

i.e.

first left page has page 1

first right page has page 1

second left page has page 2

second right page has page 2

third left page has page 3

third right page has page 3

etc.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks,

Robbie.

[Arnis Gubins]

Not easily as FM isn't designed to work that way.

You could script this to use a custom counter.

You could also use double-sized pages (i.e. left/right on same sheet) and paginate that. Then output to PDF and use a PDF utility, such as Quite Imposing to split the pages in half.

Note: using & maintaining cross-refs, indices or TOCs may not be a pleasant experience in your scenario.

[Robbie26593]

Thanks for the quick reply.

Maybe there is another way to acheive what I am trying to do...?

I am writting a dual language manual, with Japanese on the left pages and english on the right, and would like to have the ability to print just the Japanese or just the english, ideally with consecutive page numbers.

I have tried conditional tags, which works to a degree, but then japanese text ends up on the right page which has the english header and footers,

Any thoughts?

[Van Kurtz]

Is the Japanese and English in separate flows? If so, you can use your existing document as a master document, which you can print as is to show both languages. Forget the idea of having the same page number on right and left pages. Just let the page numbers flow as normal.

Then create two other documents, one for English and one for Japanese, each with the appropriate headers. In each document, you text inset only one of the flows from the master document, which FrameMaker allows you to do. Then print each separately. Each will have the correct page numbers and the correct headings. Any edits you need to make are done in the master document, then update the text insets in the single documents.

In this scenario, you have three separate documents but there is really only one that contains the content. AND no need to conditionalize anything.

Van

[Arnis Gubins]

Actually, I've used the reverse of Van's method for dual-language layouts (english-french). Two separate documents, and use text insets (two-flows) in the master to pull in the content.

[Robbie26593]

That is a great idea, I never thought of that.

Thanks for the help guys!

[bowen192]

I've wondered about this myself, and I can't understand why it can't be done.

On the Master Page I create two new Paragraph Tags:

England Page

Japan Page

England Page would be an Autonumber Format of E:<$pagenum> and

Japan Page would be an Autonumber Format of J:<$pagenum>.

Except there is no $pagenum definition.

Why is this?