Table Continuation variable and Paragraph numbering

[LeSellers]

In FrameMaker 12.0.4, we'd like to automate (or semi-automate) entering the Table Continuation variable in all table titles.

By making the Next paragraph property of the Table Title paragraph a new 'graf (called Table Title Continued), and making the table title 'graf a run in, we get two 'grafs in the table title frame, one with the table number and the text of the title, and the second with null text and the string "cont.".

The question is, can we do it? Manually keyboarding "<$Table Continuation>" into the Autonumber format field does not seem to work. It may not even be possible.

TX & all the best

[FieryPantone]

In case it helps … I don't use two table title paragraphs when I have a table that splits over pages, and I don't go anywhere near the autonumbering properties: I just enter the table caption at the top of the table and include the <$Table Continuation> variable at the end of the text. On the first page, this shows up as a symbol; once the table overflows to the second page, the (continued) text appears. The nearest to automation is remembering to hit esc, s,v,t after typing in the table title.

[LeSellers]

Thank you. We already use that process, and it's fine for what it is. But we have a lot of people who simply forget to insert the variable, so we're trying to make it easier for them.

There's a bigger issue, I think, and that is whether the numbering property can accept any variable, especially the canned ones. Since it uses variables for the numbering itself (n, in this case), it seems reasonable to expect it to take another.

Oh, well. One must hope.

Thanks again.

[Mike-Hardy]

Apparently, this feature has been added to FrameMaker 2015:

Auto Insert Table Continuation Variables

For older versions, you would have to add this feature yourself, or commission someone else to do so (not myself - sorry!). For example, you could use an ExtendScript that hooked into the Generate/Update event for a book, which ensured that there was a Table Continuation variable at the end of every table title. Visit the FrameMaker Scripting forum to pursue this approach.

[LeSellers]

Thank you for the advice. We’ll look into it. Some of us have 2015, but most have 12, so it’s going to be interesting.

Again, thank you.

Le