numbering in character format?

[Stuart Rogers]

obair wrote:
> Because this is for a number in the middle of a sentence.
> 
> Paul

Looks more like the beginning of a sentence to me.  Can't you just use a 
couple of placeholders, like this...

"Step" tag
Step <n+>, Part <n=1>:  //for Step X, Part 1

"Part" tag
Step <n>, Part <n+1>:   //for Parts 2, 3, etc. in a Step.


HTH,
sr


>  
> On Wednesday, December 23, 2009, at 10:58AM, "Lizak, Samantha" <samantha_lizak at mentor.com> wrote:
>> Just to clarify, there is a reason the typical structure of
>> 1. <general description>
>>   a. blah
>>      content
>>   b. blah
>>      content
>> 2. <general>
>>   a. blah
>>      content 
>>
>> doesn't work?  Most templates have some form of nested sequential list,
>> with item continuations.  (In Mentor's, we call them L1Seq, L2Seq, and
>> L1Body and L2Body.)
>>
>> For starting points, take a look at the default Numbered and Numbered1
>> paragraph tags.
>>
>> -Sam. 
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
>> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of obair
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 12:10 PM
>> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
>> Subject: numbering in character format?
>>
>> What I want:
>>
>> Step 1, part 1: Blah
>>
>> content
>>
>> Step 1, part 2: Blah
>>
>> content
>>
>> Step 2, part 1: Blah
>>
>> content
>>


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