Reply To: Include number of list in running header

This is one of the ugly problems with InDesign’s text variables. It matches the problem that formatting in the source paragraph is ignored (the third problem is that text variables must be on a single line, they can’t break).

There’s a scripted solution to the problem that formatting is ignored, and a variant can handle ignored paragraph numbers. It’s a really ugly workaround in that the running-header frames are overridden and the section number is inserted as plain text.

This approach entails that you must wait until the text is finished, save the document, guard it with your life, run the script, export/print the document, then discard it (or save it under a different name).