Numbering and conditional text

Thanks, everyone.
Unfortunately this does not seem to be working, so I will just have to continue manually fixing the numbers, and duplicating the sections as needed for the conditional text.

Gah! I wrote a reply, and the Internet swallowed it. Anyway, here's the short version: Rick's approach works. You should write all of your steps, indent as needed, and then apply bullets. My contribution to the discussion is that you don't need to use the "Increase Indent" icon; you can use the Tab key on your keyboard instead. (Before you press that key, place your cursor at the beginning of the line, or drag and highlight some text in a line, or drag and highlight across multiple lines.) It might save you a small amount of time.

Good luck!

Thanks, tried that but it didn't work. I couldnt get the numbers to change to bullets, maybe because I was using a numbering style.

If I removed the <OL> tags, as Leon suggested, and used a bullet style, the numbering was okay as long as the bullets were manually outdented. (Now the outdent is too big.) If they were outdented to fit in with the style guide, meaning the bullet should start under the text of the numbered section, the numbering of the next step started as if the bullet was numbered.

Example showing too much indentation:
1. First step
2. Second step
----------->* first bullet
----------->* second bullet
3. Third step

Example showing correct indentation but wrong numbering:
1. First step
2. Second step
--- * Ist bullet
--- * 2nd bullet
5. Third step

Only saw Chet's reply now, but that is exactly what I have done, and it is great.

How do you add bullets to a numbered list? (Numbered procedure, where some of the steps use bullets.) Any tips or tricks for this?

Terrific thanks, it worked!!!!

Howerver, the indentation of the pictures was messed up, and they are now indented too much. (Maybe because I couldnt see <LI> </LI> tags.)

I am just happy the numbering is now okay, and have manually tweaked the indentation,

In RH5, you can insert a picture without inserting the line breaks that force you to manually restart the numbering. Instead of pressing the Enter key on your keyboard, press Shift+Enter twice, insert your image, press Shift+Enter again to insert a blank line after your image, and then press the Enter key to generate the next step in your numbered list. Your conditional tag should work just fine when applied to your numbered step/image combo.

Thanks, I checked the tags, and they seem okay.

I am sure the problem has something to do with the fact that I had to manually set the numbers for steps 3 and 4, as they were after pictures, causing the numbering to restart at 1.

Thanks,
Jackie

Your x-condition tag is probably not grabbing everything it should. Take a look at the underlying code; you might find that the list item starts with P and LI tags and ends with LI and P tags. You'll likely find that your x-condition tag is nott encompassing the entire set.

(Hint: The same is true when conditionalizing table rows.)


Good luck,
Leon