Re: Aligning Autonumbers

2009-02-23 Thread Art Campbell
Although I think it's kind of a bass-ackward design, you can do it with a right, or maybe a decimal, tab in the Heading1TOC (and other) tags. Just set it to the correct indent location in the tag and in the correct position in the Autonumbering stream, save, then insert a tab stop into the correct

Re: Aligning Autonumbers

2009-02-23 Thread Alan Litchfield
Like Art said, pretty strange way to do it, but that's what graphic designers are for right ;) I would handle it this way: 1. Create the auto-number sequence but put a tab symbol after it and in the Basic Paragraph settings put in a right aligned tab. When the numbers are created they should all

RE: Aligning Autonumbers

2009-02-23 Thread Combs, Richard
Alan Litchfield wrote: Like Art said, pretty strange way to do it, but that's what graphic designers are for right ;) Actually, right-aligning numbers of varying lengths isn't that strange. It gives you a consistent amount of space between the number and the following text, regardless of the

RE: Aligning Autonumbers

2009-02-23 Thread Alan Litchfield
Good stuff, thanks Richard :) Combs, Richard wrote: Almost right. But the first tab has to come _before_ the number or it won't have any effect on the number. Something like this: A:\tn.n.n.n+\t That was what I meant ;) For the pgf formats, figure out how much space the biggest number

Re: Aligning Autonumbers

2009-02-23 Thread Jack DeLand
Thanks to all for your help. I am translating the German specs from the graphic designer, and yes, he did come up with that TOC design by himself. 100 bucks says he never used FM. They are big on Interleaf/Quicksilver. -- Jack DeLand :: member, information architecture institute ::