autonumbering with line break?

[Klaus Daube]

On 21 Nov 2006 at 10:08, Scott Prentice wrote:

> Actually .. one way I've seen this done is to use a tab followed by a
> space (the space is important) at the end of your autonumber string, then
> change the tab position for that paragraph style to be the width of your
> text frame. This forces it to wrap with minimal problems.

Scott,
I have checked this and found that the following steps are necessary:

1) The autonumber string ends with \t\b (where \b stands for a simple 
blank) - as you say.

2) The TAB must be a left tab and the position must be slightly left 
to the width of the text frame (e.g. 11.7 cm for an 11.8 cm wide text 
frame). This depends on the test size.

3) The paragraph text must start with a nonbreaking space. Without 
this the text is stuffed into a black blob at the end of the line.

The paragraph style may be in the catalogue, since there is nothing 
strange in the style itself.

Klaus Daube
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