Re: line numbers?

[Jay Smith <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

E Dunn,

While autonumbering can theoretically work, how would you propose to manage
the autonumbering...

   In a document using umpteen tags?  (? Have two other master documents that
have all the same tags -- and they have to be maintained in sync for all other
tag features (very hard to reliably do) -- and import the formats from each,
as needed?

   For paragraphs that are of the "lead in" type?

   To put the line numbers at a constant distance from the binding edge (where
people are accustomed to looking for them) instead of immediately in front of
the text.

One thought -- IF the autonumber concept can appropriately work given the
other formatting problems -- is to make a COPY of your document and on the
COPY run a FrameScript script that sets autonumbering and turns it on for all
paragraph formats or maybe all non-runin paragraph formats.

I have copied this to the FrameScript folks for possible further ideas from
their quarter.

If somebody has a more straight forward way to do "line numbers", PLEASE post
it!

-- 
Jay Smith

e-mail: jay@jaysmith.com

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edunn@transport.bombardier.com wrote:
> 
> Surely what you want can be accomplished by the autonumbering feature of
> FM.
> 
> >>Does anyone know how
> >>to get line numbers from Framemaker?  I am considering editing the
> resultant
> >>Postscript (from the Unix version, the Windows Postscript is pretty
> ugly),
> >>but I hope there is an easier way.  3rd party plug-in maybe?
>

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