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• • November 2, 2016 at 3:43 am #89504
    Anonymous

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    Hi there,

    If I have a technical document with pages that needs to be numbered 1.0, 1.1, 1,2, 2,0, 2.1, 3.0 etc, how can I automate this? For the life of me I cant think how to do it.

    I have tried fiddling with the section and running header options and can do it with section markers – but if they add in a new section later the old ones dont update. You can’t do it with section prefixes as you can’t add a zero. I feel like there’s a simple way that is eluding me, anyone got any ideas?

    Thanks

  • November 2, 2016 at 7:20 am #89511
    David Blatner

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    I’d suggest using numbered lists instead. See: https://creativepro.com/use-numbered-lists-instead-of-auto-page-numbering.php

  • November 3, 2016 at 1:41 am #89559
    Peter Kahrel

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    > but if they add in a new section later the old ones dont update

    Put each section in a separate document, then add all documents to an InDesign book. Use the Chapter variable for the section numbers.

    But the challenge is the first page number: InDesign can’t start numbering at 0, it has to be at least 1. You could start numbering at 1 and do the page number in a character style so that a script can later find it and replace the auto page number with a static value (minus 1). Though that’s a problem if you use cross-references.

    Peter

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