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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