I am trying to create a legal contract with numbered paragraphs. In the
definitions section, I have text that should be laid out as follows
1 Definitions
...
1.n Definition Explanations of definition
and second line etc
2 Clauses
2.1 This is the first clause
...
2.m This is a clause of the agreement which
should be
(Note e-mail probably screws this up, but the left hand side of "and second
line etc" should be lined up with the left hand end of "Explanations of
definition", similarly the left hand end of "should be" should be lined up
with the left hand end of "This is a clause")
1.n and 2.m should be automatically generated (but see below)
The paragraph style for the definition paragraph has the first lines margin at
the left (ie at 0pt), and the second and subsequent margins about 144pt.
There seems to be a psuedo tab point at 144pt so that a tab after "Definition"
lines the first part of Explanation with the following lines.
This works when there is no numbering.
As soon as numbering is switched on the margins are supposidely moved right by
an amount related to the width of the number (not quite figured this out
yet). HOWEVER the psuedo tab point (and the markers in the ruler at the top
of the page) aren't. As a result my text formating is all screwed up.
Without putting an extra tab in there doesn't seem to be any way to get things
to line up properly. Is this correct? Is there a better way of doing this?
I also have something I want to make sure I understand - my second and
subsequent sections should also be numbered in a similar manner, but the
format of these will be different, and therefore require a different style.
It seems to work if I make a style derived from (ie "linked to" in in the
organiser tab of defining a style). Is this the correct approach?
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Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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