Is this a mistake by Indesign or am I making one?

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April 18, 2024
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In my two-column layout, the numbering of the illustrations appears in the wrong order.
I have supplied all the necessary definitions for this in my sample file.
I have searched the instructions and have been unable to find a solution.

A2_test_leer.zip

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rob day

Community Expert

Hi @KOLKRABE , Each of your captions is a text frame with a single paragraph. In order to get Bullets and Numbering paragraph feature to work the way you are expecting, the caption text frames would need to be threaded with a frame break character inserted after each caption:

A frame break character inseted at the end of the caption:

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KOLKRABEAuthor

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Thank you very much, that was a good tip. I was able to apply it to my case.
I have a whole book here with 18 chapters and a whole series of pictures (and footnotes etc.) in each chapter, which also had to change position in the course of editing. At the end, a list of illustrations is generated from this, in which the captions have to be exchanged for the source texts. So full concentration.
In the places where I was not satisfied with the automatic figure numbering, I was able to proceed locally. So I inserted the frame break at the end of the captions in these places and then re-linked these frames.
What is Indesign doing internally that makes such an intervention necessary?
I would like to see a better algorithm from Adobe, because such a procedure is completely normal in the work as described above.

Thank you, thank you

rob day

Community Expert

The feature you are using is for automatic numbering of continuous paragraphs, not one line caption or text frame numbering—there is not a text frame numbering feature

Here there is a single paragraph styled to auto number starting with 11: