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Automatic numbering

There is support for automatic numbering for Chapters, Sections, Sub-sections Lists and Sub-lists.

Chapter and Section numbering

Create a Chapter or Section and select it, or select an existing Chapter or Section.

  1. Choose Change from the Format menu (or click Select on the Chapter/Section style button.
  2. Click on the AutoNumber check box to activate the writable icon.
  3. Click Indent to automatically insert space between the number and the text following it.
  4. Type the optional text and the number values (see below) for example 'Chapter %1'.

List numbering

The List dialogue also provides for automatic numbering of lists and user defined numbered bullets.

Roman Letters of the Text and
numbers alphabet numbers

Numbering system

The numbering system is chosen by typing a '%' into the writable icon followed by a character shown in the table below.

Command Description Example
%1 Arabic (normal) numbers 0, 1, 2, 3...
%i Lowercase Roman i, ii, iii, iv...
%I Uppercase Roman I, II, III, IV...
%4 Dingbats 1 ¬­®¯
%5 Dingbats 2 ¶·¸¹
%6 Dingbats 3 ÀÁÂÃ
%7 Dingbats 4 ÊËÌÍ
%a Lowercase letters a, b, c, d...
%A Uppercase letters A, B, C, D...
%> Right align number 10
%% Insert % %
%[n] Start numbering at [n]umber 30
%{n} Add number - 1 to the number you would normally get. i.e. %{51} would renumber 1 as 51. 50
%L"."%1 legal format. L is number
of containing structure
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Text and numbers can be combined:

Enter To get
Item(%i) Item (i), Item (ii), etc.
Article - %a Article - a, Article - b, etc.

%[n] (where 'n' is a number) controls the start number:

Enter To get a starting
bullet of
%[12]%1 12
%[4]%I IV

%L (or l) gives legal format where 'L' represents the number of the structure containing the list.

Enter To get a sub-list
numbering of
%L.%1 1.1, 1.2 - 2.1, 2.2 etc.,
%L"."%1
Use this format for MS Word

For example where a numbered list contains a legal numbered sub-list.

  1. list first
  2. list second
    1. sub-list first
    2. sub-list second
  3. list last

Note

If you specify %L.%1, for example, and the structure above the list or section is not numbered, anything between the %L and the %1 is ignored (so you won't get .1, .2 etc.).

However, if you really do want any text between %L and %1 to be included, regardless of whether %L expands to anything, enclose it in quotation marks - as in %L"."%1.

If you are exporting to MS Word you must enclose text in quotation marks.


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