Autonumbering with Letters

FM numbering is one of the features I truly enjoy working with, even though I fight vigorously to remove numbering from documents where I feel hyperlink xrefs are more reader-friendly …

I'm guessing the numbering sequences for the lists are interfering with the sequence for the headings. One approach is to use named sequences, so you can say "increment/display this counter but reset that counter/leave it as it is for later". I've attached the output from a quick example, followed by the numbering definitions; the H: is the "series label" that links the four definitions together.

• heading 1 H:<$chapnum>. < =0>< =0>< =0> picks up the chapter numbering and resets all the other counters to zero. The choice of upper-case roman numerals for displaying the chapter number is a numbering property for the file.
• heading 2 H:< ><A+>. < =0>< =0> leaves the first counter as-is and does not display it; <A+> increments the second counter, and displays it as an upper-case letter; the last two counters are reset to zero
• heading 3 H:< >< >< >< =0> leaves the first three counters as they are, resets the fourth counter to zero and does not display any of them
• ordered list H:< >< >< ><n+>.\t then leaves the first three counters as they are and increments the fourth counter (and includes a stop and a tab)

If you're not numbering the third-level headings, you could just use three counters. If you might have more than one ordered list under the same third-level heading, separated by body text, you can apply the "invisible reset" from heading 3 to the body-text style.

"series label" is the key term, and should help you find other explanations. Hope you have as much fun setting up your numbering as I did preparing the example :-}

What are the autonumber strings that you are using for these headings?