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Gus Wah
MemberOkay, hold it right there.
I looked at your advice that the red + indicates an overset. While it doesn’t make sense because the text frame has plenty of room for several digits, I found that if I widen it enough to contain the word “Section”, then everything works as it should.
So thanks for all of your efforts. We’re finally solved.
MemberWell, no, I didn’t say that I’ve been trying to use chapter numbers. What I’ve been saying is that I’m trying to insert new SECTION numbers. Because according to the official site, InDesign only allows a single chapter per document. For this reason, InDesign offers the workaround of placing and renewing the section marker in multiple locations, even if the word before it is “Chapter”.
And that’s all I’m trying to do.
Others say they do it all the time. I’m just trying to figure out how.
MemberWell, these suggestions are all meant to help, but none has fixed the problem.
1. I must (and I do) create the chapter number in a text frame on a master page because I want it to repeat throughout the book. The text frame simply says Chapter and then I insert the section marker. Accordingly, all document pages appear with a red + sign in that spot.
2. There is no access to the Numbering & Section Options in the master page, at least not after the section marker has been set.
3. Back on the document pages I notice that the Numbering & Section Options begins with a greyed-out checkbox for Start Section. So something must be up with that. I just don’t know what it is. The other items all appear to be settable, but I imagine that I first need to set the Start Section.
The only suggestion I’ve found that I can’t actually try is D. Blatner’s above where he refers to the “book panel”. There doesn’t seem to be any reference for the book panel. I do have a page panel, but I doubt that it’s one and the same.
MemberI’ve just watched the pertinent part of Michael Murphy’s InDesigner tutorial on book basics. I note that he edifies for CS2, and since I have CS6 it’s likely that there are discrepancies.
He begins the tutorial with the pages panel and a small arrow icon above the page 1 icon. When I click that icon I do not get the Numbering & Section Options as he does, so I presume that the version difference is too wide to make this a useful video for me.
MemberActually the Numbering & Section Options are not available in the Master page setup which is where the page numbering was set (so that I can have the chapter number appear on all odd-numbered pages). The Numbering & Section Options are, however, available on the normal pages. So that’s where I’ve set the automatic numbering, but of course nothing changes — the book is chapter 1 throughout. As for the setting in the “book panel”, this is something I can’t find. I don’t appear to have a “book panel”. I do have pages panel that seems to fit the description, but there is no add-document setting.
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