Best practice or method of lining up decimal points in numbered paragraphs

[Dosick, Daniel (GE Indust, Security)]

Andy,

Here's how I do it: Set up the Autonumber format for both tags with a tab, then the numbering "building block" and decimal point, then another tab, as in the following example:

  N:\t<n+>.\t

Make the first tab a right tab and the second a left tab. Don't indent the first line, but set the second line indent to match the second (left) tab. A little experimentation will show you the right sizes for the tabs and the indent.

Dan

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	Message: 30
	Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 22:30:22 -0400
	From: "Andy Kelsall" <andy.kelsall at gmail.com>
	Subject: Best practice or method of lining up decimal points in
		numbered	paragraphs...
	To: Framers at frameusers.com
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	Hello,

	        I'm writing a step procedure that involves over 10 steps. I have set
	up one paragraph tag named
	StepFirst, and another paragraph tag (for all subsequent steps) named
	StepNext. The problem is, the
	decimal points won't line up between the single-digit steps and the
	double-digit steps.

	        One solution I used was to create a paragraph tag named StepNexta
	(with a first indent of .5 and a
	left indent of .72) for steps numbered 1-9, and another tag named StepNextb
	(with a first indent of .4 and a
	left indent of .7) for all numbered steps above 9. This allows all decimal
	points to line up. Is this an acceptable
	way of getting the decimal points to line up, or is there a better way to do
	this?

	Thanks,

	Andy


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