Numbered Lists

[Airlens]

I need to create a numbered list with 2 levels.  Level 1 is “Actions”;  level 2, indented is “Sub-Actions”. 

The first number enumerates all Actions and sub-actions sequencially (1.2.3.) .

The second number only applies to the sub-actions within an action and starts at i  (i.ii.iii.)

1. Action

2.     i.  Sub-action

3.     ii. Sub-action

4. Action

5.      i. Sub-action

This is easily done in framemaker using run-in headings,  but not so much here.

Is this even possible in ID?

[Steve Werner]

I don't think you have more than one level in a single paragraph style in InDesign (which is what it looks like you're trying to do).

You can do Outline style number as described here:

outlines

Or you can do Multi-level Lists as described here:

multi-level lists

Bob Bringhurst who was one of the people who developed InDesign documentation created these tutorials as well as a couple others to learn about InDesign's numbered list feature.

[Airlens]

Unfortunately this could be a real problem.  It may mean I go back to FM and try to finish there. I like Indesign and it looks like it would work nicely for an 8 page newsletter but probably not so well for an 800 pg technical document with TOC,crossreferences, illustrations, captions, tables, footnotes, endnotes, index, etc. Thanks for you input.

[Barb Binder · Accepted solution]

Airlens​, I would love to see Fm's run-in heads added to InDesign—they are very useful—but we don't have them yet. You can vote up the feature request here: STYLE support for run-in (aka in-line) headings – Adobe InDesign Feedback.

BTW, I think that's a pretty clever solution for handling your numbering style in Fm—I'm not sure I would have come up with using run-in heads if this had been asked on the FrameMaker forum.

~Barb