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Conference vaxuum::document_ft

Title:	DOCUMENT T1.0
Notice:	New notesfile (DOCUMENT.NOTE) now available (see note 897)
Moderator:	CLOSET::ADLER

Created:	Mon Feb 09 1987
Last Modified:	Thu Oct 31 1991
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	897
Total number of notes:	4397

606.0. "changing chapter numbering" by CYCLPS::PANGAKIS () Tue Jul 07 1987 14:32

    I need to manipulate the CHAPTER tag (or maybe something else)
    so that I can change the table of contents below left into
    something like the below right:
    
    CHAPTER 1   1.3.7 TRANSACTIONS ->  SCREEN 1.3.7   TRANSACTIONS
                                     
    Special considerations:
    
    The page numbers should reflect this numbering, for example,
    page 1 would be: 1.3.7-1
                           
    The headings should be SCREEN instead of CHAPTER in the table of
    contents.
    
    Any <HEAD1> (etc.) tags should reflect the numbering sequence
    (preceeded by 1.3.7).

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
606.1	Can't type my own name; it's Rose, not Roe	COOKIE::JOHNSTON		`Tue Jul 07 1987 15:38`	11
	Just glancing at the MILSPEC sample, looks like that would get you the non-chapter headings you want; don't know about the page numbers. Another way that might work is to build a profile, where your front matter is followed by <include> file tags. Just guessing, but you might have some time to experiment while you are waiting on an answer from someone else who might be more help. Roe
606.2	extremely complicated	CLOSET::ANKLAM		`Tue Jul 07 1987 15:49`	22
	This is actually very tricky to do. You would need to change all the TeX macro definitions for the various heading levels to capture and save the current number. Then you would need to change the definition of the header or footer line where the page number is written out to test for this number and to print it. (You would also have to decide whether the page number should have the section number from the first section on the page or the last section on the page.) You would also have to modify the table of contents output routines to put the section number in a different place. I don't think the problem ends there. As I said, it would be tricky! I have it on my list to look at a way to put the section numbers in the index (rather than than page numbers), and some of that work may have useful fall-out for this type of problem. Not in the near future, however. patti
606.3	Possibly not TOO bad	BUNSUP::LITTLE	Todd Little NJCD SWS 323-4475	`Thu Jul 09 1987 01:20`	14
	Can you elaborate a little more? Is the 1.3.7 in your example something that is fixed and entered in the .SDML source file or is it generated based upon some nesting level of your documents structure? If its the former, I don't think the change is all the tricky, is it Patti? I think you'd only need to change the footer definitions (although not necessarily), and the definition for the number boxes in the header tags. Are the other tags whose numbering you also want to affect besides <HEADn> such as <FIGURE> or <TABLE>? -tl PS It may actually be trickier than I make it out to be, but its late and I'd have to get a better feel for what you're trying to do.