[Framers] Frame "Counter" Issue

[Craig, Alison GLI/CA]

Windows 10
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I've had to add in a layer of alpha-based "sub-instructions" in my manual formatting-but Frame is not cooperating. Normally I use plain bullets, but these new items must be completed in a specific order, hence the alpha numbering (per the manual conventions).

Numeric instruction counter: starting at "1." and incrementing
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"Instruction1": <n=1>.\t
"Instruction+": <n+>.\t

Alpha sub-instruction counter: starting at "a)" and incrementing
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"Instruction Alpha-a": <a=1>)\t
"Instruction Alpha-+": <a+>)\t

The numeric counters work fine by themselves and the alpha counters work fine. 

However, if I follow the final alpha counter with another numeric counter, instead of using the next number (ie, picking up from the last numeric counter), Frame calculates the numeric counter by translating the final alpha counter into a number and increments that (see step 5 (which should be step 3) of "How it's currently working"). Weirdly, it follows the wrong counter but uses the correct formatting.

I'm sure I'm missing something simple, but I have idea what it is.

I don't use this often, but it's crucial in a few places in a particular manual (which was originally written in Word where it works just fine).

Alison 


How it should work:
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1. first numeric instruction 
2. second numeric instruction
     a) first alpha sub-instruction
     b) second alpha sub-instruction
     c) third alpha sub-instruction
     d) fourth alpha sub-instruction 
3. third numeric instruction 
4. fourth numeric instruction
5. fifth numeric instruction

How it's currently working: 
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1. first numeric instruction 
2. second numeric instruction
     a) first alpha sub-instruction
     b) second alpha sub-instruction
     c) third alpha sub-instruction
     d) fourth alpha sub-instruction 
5. third numeric instruction
6. fourth numeric instruction 
7. fifth numeric instruction


Alison Craig 
Technical Writer, Engineering, Greenlight Innovation