Reply To: Equation numbering and conditional text

Hi Jeri

This shouldn’t be a problem if you are using paragraph styles for your questions, because you can just create a style for each type, each using a separate numbering List.

So, e.g. ‘SI-question’ paragraph style has definition with Bullets and Numbering > List Type=Numbers, List=SI (you create this as a New List… in the dropdown)
And ‘I-P-question’ paragraph style has Bullets and Numbering > List Type=Numbers, List=I-P (also create this as a new List)

If your equations are literally labelled “I-P eq. 1” then you can include this in the Numbering Style section of Bullets and Numbering as “I-P eq. ^#” for Number.

You would still have to apply the conditional format manually I believe. I can’t immediately think of a clever way of using these styles to select the version that is showing because “Hidden” is (unfortunately) not an attribute you can apply to a paragraph (or character) style, neither can you define a paragraph style as conditional.

Done this way, the equation numbering should be correct regardless of whether one or both types are visible, which is handy for editing/checking consistency of the pairs.

Nick