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nancy33534756
Inspiring
February 3, 2017
Question

Table autonumbering disappears in .chm output

  • February 3, 2017
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Hello.

I am using Frame 2015 in a Win 7 environment.

My table titles include autonumbering. So do my figure captions.

When I publish to .chm, the table autonumbering disappears, whilc the figure caption autonumbering is displayed correctly. I've poked around in the Publish Settings but don't see any obvious way to handle the problem.

Does anyone know why this is happening and how to fix it?

--Nancy

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    Matt-Tech Comm Tools
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    Matt-Tech Comm ToolsCommunity Expert
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    March 28, 2017

    Hi Nancy, it seems to work for me. In this example I mapped the  Border Blue table format to the ​Simple Border​ format in the Publish settings.

    -Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant
    nancy33534756
    nancy33534756Author
    Inspiring
    March 28, 2017

    Here is what the fm source file looks like:

    .chm looks like tjis:

    Interestingly, autonumbering is preserved in html5 output. But we currently use .chms.

    nancy33534756
    nancy33534756Author
    Inspiring
    February 15, 2017

    Could someone who keeps an eye on this forum please take a look at this question? I've been playing around with editing the Publish output settings with no luck. Not only are the autonumbers truncated, so are parts of the Table Title text. This is a real problem.

    nancy33534756
    nancy33534756Author
    Inspiring
    February 15, 2017

    It looks like this:

    There should be this additional tex preceding what you see in the title:

    Figure ##  8 additional alpha characters

    Jeff_Coatsworth
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    Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
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    February 15, 2017

    Hi, Jeff.

    I have done a good bit of exploring. Here are the results:

    1. Autonumbering for tables also disappears in WebHelp and HTML5 output.

    2. I compared my TableTitle and Caption paragraph conversion Publish settings and made them identical, but still the table autonumbering drops out while the caption autonumbering stays put.

    3. My document has side heads. When a table stays within the text column, only the autonumbering is missing when I convert the doc to .chm. When a table goes all the way across the page, across the side head region, both the autonumering and some of the title text are missing. I changed the TableTitle paragraph format from In Column to Across All Columns and Side Heads. This change made no difference.

    Can you suggest anything else to try?


    Has this ever worked or is it something new that's happening? My suspicion is that the FM Publish routine isn't robust enough to handle the FM layout you're using.

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