ROFL. If any document needs *that* many independent counters, then it is probably too complicated for the audience to follow the numbering anyway! :)
I think that KISS should be applied. I know that I have paragraph numbering up the wazoo in my tech specs, but 12 counters have been more than sufficient for even my most complex docs! Z -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Fred Ridder Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:22 AM To: l_c_smalley at yahoo.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Numbering question Lester Smalley wrote (in part): > You can use more than just letters as the numbering series identifiers; digits and punctuation symbols work also, although can become extremely confusing. > > I have not tested it thoroughly, but I believe that any single character may be used as an identifier preceding the colon, so you can have the very cryptic number series <:<n+> I did do some testing on this a few years back (on FM6), and found that there are, in fact, a few reserved characters that you *cannot* use. As I recall, the left angle bracket, the equals sign, the plus sign, and the colon were among the reserved characters that cannot be used for series labels. But even if you avoid most of the strange or confusing punctuation marks and any character pairs that are easily mistaken (e.g., l and 1, O and 0), you still can define more than 60 independent numbering series, which should be enough for most uses. -Fred Ridder
