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mikisuh123
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April 16, 2013
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How can I create a nested list with letters, numbers, and bullets?

  • April 16, 2013
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Can someone please help me with the issue I am having?  I want to created a nested list with letters, numbers and bullets.  I am new to FrameMaker, and I am editing a template I have to follow for work in unstructured FrameMaker.  I am on instruction step 43, so I need to keep those numbers going for the instruction steps.  The substep paragraph tags are already created.  I need to create a paragraph tag that includes the bulleted sub sub step.  I figured out how to create the new paragraph tag, and was able to make the bullet, however, I cannot get the cursor to start after a tab after the bullet.  It starts with no spacing after the bullet like the numbers do.  I have insterted a \t after the bullet in the paragraph designer. The bullet is starting at the correct indent spot (I made the first indent the correct number in the basic editor) please help!

See example below:

43.  Instruction steps are listed here. Instructions steps are listed here.  Instruction steps are listed here.  Instruction steps are listed here.  Instruction steps are listed here.  Instruction steps are listed here.

a. Substep

b. Substep

c. Substep

• Sub-sub step

• Sub-sub step

• Sub-sub step

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    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis Gubins
    Inspiring
    April 16, 2013

    If you have a look at the supplied templates with FM, you can get examples of implementations for multiple numbering styles (File > New click on Explore Standard Templates and then scroll down to the Outlines, pick one and click Show Sample).

    Here are also some links to various tutorials and papers on doing this:

    http://www.prismnet.com/~tcm/etwr2472/guides/frame9/frame_autonumbers.html

    http://www.techcomplus.com/reference/autonumbering.pdf

    http://www.infocon.com/files/autonum.pdf

    http://www.microtype.com/resources/articles/AUTONUM_DE.PDF

    http://www.stc-carolina.org/tiki-index.php?page=2001-08-30+Autonumber<

    http://wiki.scriptorium.com/tiki-index.php?page=Changing+the+autonumbering+attributes+of+the+Numbered+and+Numbered1+tags

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    mikisuh123Author
    New Participant
    April 16, 2013

    Thank you for your quick response!  The specific problem I am having is that there is no tab after the bullet even though i have entered \t after the bullet.  Can anyone explain this?

    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis Gubins
    Inspiring
    April 16, 2013

    I'm sorry I am so confused about this but for example, if I have • > displayed, isn't the > a tab?  The blinking cursor starts right after the bullet instead of after the tab, so when I type, the words are on top of the bullet.  If i hit tab, the cursor actually goes where I want it to.  Sorry for my newbie questions!


    You may have the tab character (>) displayed, but if the "tab stop" isn't defined in the paragraph format, then there is no location for FM to move the following content to, so it is ignored in that situation.

    As I said before, it needs to be defined in the paragraph format:

    The above paragraph format doesn' have any tabs defined. So even if you have multiple tab characters inserted on a line, nothing will happen.

    While the above paragraph has a left-tab stop defined (absolutely) at 1.0" from the left margin of the text frame. To change or add tabs, you need to click on the Edit button to make the changes. It looks like this:

    The above entry would add a right-tab at 5.0" from the left margin (not 5in over from the previous stop) and would use a dot leader between the tab character and the stop location.

    Keep in mind that all tab stops in FM are specified as absolute locations. So this also means that if you insert a tab character in the content that is past the location of the stop specified, again, nothing will happen as you are already past the defined stop.

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