consecutively numbered table of contents and headlines

[Denis26290]

Hello Adobe Community,

i have two questions about RoboHelp HTML (RoboHelp 9).

1st Question)

Is it possible headlines are numbered consecutively like this example (A lower headline level always has the number of the higher level in front of it.) :

1. Headline ABC
2. Headline DEF

        2.1 Headline OUI

        2.2 Headline POI

              2.2.1 Headline ZUI

   3.  Headline XYZ

The example is like a numbering is possible in microsoft word.

And one important thing is that headlines are linked to another in a way that if I delete "2. Headline DEF" 2.1, 2.2, 2.2.1 becomes 1.1, 1.2, 1.2.1 .

2nd Question)

Is it possible, numbering the table of contents consecutively regardless of books, pages, and bookmarks?

Example:

1. Book 1

        1.1 Page 1

        1.2 Page 2

             1.2.1 Bookmarked_Headline 1

             1.2.2 Bookmarked_Headline 2

        1.3 Page 3

        1.4 Bookmarked_Headline 3

The numbers which are used in the table of contents should be the same like headlines have on there pages.

I hope you understand my english and can help me.

kind regards

Denis

[Peter Grainge · Accepted solution]

What you need to use within the topics is a multilevel list. See my site for information on using lists.

They cannot be applied to the TOC contents and there is now way around that as far as I am aware, other than manually numbering the books and topics.

Many people are moving away from numbering other than in specialised areas.

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@petergrainge

[Denis26290]

Thank you for your fast answer.

But multilevel lists aren't that what i was searching for.

Because i want that the headlines are numbered and the second level headlines are numbered, too. But in second level they should have the upper level number in front of there own number.

A list is something completely different in reference on headlines.

Ok, if that concept doesn't work, i have to thinking about a new one.

[Peter Grainge]

Multilevel lists can be created exactly as you describe.

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@petergrainge

[Denis26290]

Yes of course in this simple example, but in reality it looks like this.

1. FirstLevel Headline

Some text in this area,

about

many

many rows

     1.1 SecondLevel Headline

          Some text which would be much more exactly.

<<ANY OTHER PAGE>>

2. Firstlevel Headline

And a

new chapter again.

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And this example wouldn't be possible, wouldn't it?

Even the numbering should go about many pages.

Or did I understand it wrong?

[Peter Grainge]

The numbered styles do not have to have numbers or bullets. I just set this up using a multilevel list, looks like what you want.

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@petergrainge

[Denis26290]

New day, good example.

Now i understood it right

Thank you

[Peter Grainge]

Come back if you get stuck with it. The CSS does need some manual editing outside of RoboHelp. The page on my site should help.

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@petergrainge