On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 10:06 +0000, Alan Chandler wrote: > 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? >
Each of the styles has indentation. Please try modifying the current style's indentation to do what you want. I also recommend that you save the changes as a new style for use later. See the User Guides and HOW-TOs at http://documentation.openoffice.org/ for ideas. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
