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• • August 23, 2024 at 3:01 am #14405894
    Margaret Hunter

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    I know how to make a ‘normal’ multilevel (outline) list like this:

    1. Level 1
    1.1 Level 2
    1.2 Level 2

    2. Level 1
    2.1 Level 2
    2.2 Level 2

    But my client (it’s their design!) has the level 1 headings set using the numbering format 01, 02, 03 etc. I don’t want those leading zeros to appear in level 2 as 01.1, 01.2 etc. Can anyone think of a good way to do that please? I know I can do a fudge by creating the zero in a separate text frame next to the level 1 heading, so not including it in the numbering format, but that’s not great. And of course if I have more than 9 sections then I’m not going to need that zero at all.

  • August 23, 2024 at 3:24 am #14405895
    Margaret Hunter

    Participant

    I’ve thought of another fudge that works, but still interested to hear whether anyone has a better solution.

    I’ve set the level 1 numbering to 1,2,3,4 format but applied a character style to the numbers that’s a tiny size and no colour. And for the visible section number I’ve created a separate unthreaded frame with just the 01,02,03 etc numbers so that they appear on the page but are not part of the multilevel list.

  • August 23, 2024 at 7:32 am #14405897
    Dhafir Photo

    Participant

    Use 2 paragraph style, the first one is for Level 1 with default Numbering settings. In the second para. style use these settings:

    Bullets and Numbering Options:
    Level: 2
    Numbering Style:
    Number: ^1.^#.^t

  • August 23, 2024 at 8:01 am #14405898
    Margaret Hunter

    Participant

    Thanks for your reply, Dhafir. Perhaps I have misunderstood your answer but I can’t see how that solves it. I need to keep the level 1 headings with the 01,02,03 format. It’s level 2 I want to change to 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 (ie level 1 but without the zero, then level 2 number).

  • August 23, 2024 at 9:17 am #14405899
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    That is a VERY weird design choice. (Feel free to tell your client I think so.) :-)

    Yeah, I think you may have to do a “manually insert zero” kind of hack. If you had hundreds of these, it might be worth getting someone to write a script to do it.

    The following article will likely not help, but I can’t help posting it just because it discusses the whole “zero” thing in a different way:

    Multilevel Numbering With a Zero (like 2.0.1)

  • August 23, 2024 at 9:30 am #14405900
    Margaret Hunter

    Participant

    Thanks, David. I think I’ve already read that, but I’ll take another look.

    I agree about the design (I didn’t set up this template), and I’m going to try to persuade my client to ditch those leading zeros. But in the meantime my hack with the hidden numbers is working. Just haven’t checked yet what it will do when I try to create an accessible PDF…

    This project is stretching my InDesign brain in other ways too. We have references (bibliography) in as numbered endnotes, but some refs need to be cited more than once. In the past they resorted to static notes, but we now want them to be clickable in the PDF. So far I have a combo of endnotes and cross-references for the duplicates. But it’s all fun working this out.

  • August 27, 2024 at 9:24 am #14405943
    Michel Allio for FRIdNGE

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    Hi,

    In fact, as usual with InDesign, it’s so simplistic:

    3 Para Styles [of course, everybody will understand that the “Level 1B” para style is” invisible”!] + 3 simple Regex [run 0 to reset, then 1 and 2!]

    (^/) The Jedi

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  • August 27, 2024 at 3:01 pm #14405977
    Nick B

    Participant

    Hi Margaret

    Another approach you might try uses chapter numbers but this only works if you are using an indb book and chapters are separate document files. In that case for your list level 1 you can use a numbered list with 01, 02 style and 1,2,3 style for list level 2, but for your list level 2 instead of ^1.^# it would be ^H.^#.

    You can obviously only have one level 1 heading in each chapter file so that level 1 heading no.=chapter no., but this allows for more than 10 chapters, and also lets you generate a table of contents with the 01 / 1.01 format automatically.

    Nick

  • August 28, 2024 at 1:49 am #14405988
    Margaret Hunter

    Participant

    Thanks, Michel. I will try when I have time to understand your solution.
    Nick, this isn’t using books. It’s for short single document reports.

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