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Tom McTavish - 19 Aug 2004 00:15 GMT

I'm trying to make a style for writing pseudocode. I want the
pseudocode to be numbered so that in my discussion of it, I can
reference individual line numbers. This is how I want it to look:

1. First, normal line
2. Second may be indented, but number stays to the left.
3. Third line even further indented, but number stays left
4. Another line like so
5. And the last line

The problem is that when I indent, I get normal outline results:

1. First, normal line
a. Second may be indented, but number stays to the left.
ii. Third line even further indented, but number stays left
2. Another line like so
3. And the last line

This second example is NOT what I want. I want the first example that
maintains the numbering of the first level, but allows me to indent
the paragraphs of other levels.

Thanks,
Tom

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Chad DeMeyer - 19 Aug 2004 00:30 GMT

Tom,

Every way I could think of to do this with paragraph numbering would have to
break a few rules and apply direct formatting to some paragraphs. But one
other approach that occurred to me is to bound the code in continuous
section breaks, and turn on line numbering for that section (File>Page
Setup>Layout>Line Numbers). Unorthodox, but it may be the easiest way to to
what you want.

Regards,
Chad

> I'm trying to make a style for writing pseudocode. I want the
> pseudocode to be numbered so that in my discussion of it, I can
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Tom McTavish - 19 Aug 2004 17:13 GMT

Thanks Chad,

I'd thought of doing the Line Numbers thing from Page Setup, but
there's another problem with that. There are times where the
line/paragraph will wrap, and I don't want to increment the number.
For example:

1. First, normal line
2. Second line indented and
possibly with a word wrap
3. Third line indented even further
4. Normal, etc.

Is there possibly a way of doing this with a table or column?

(Sorry everyone for the multiple original postings. I was getting
messages saying that the message was not posted, when obviously it
was!)

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Chad DeMeyer - 19 Aug 2004 23:24 GMT

Tom,

I was afraid you wanted to cound wrapped paragraphs as one line, but it was
worth a try.
You could certainly set this up in a table. Two columns. First column,
very narrow with paragraph numbering applied to the cells. Second, column,
use different styles for the different levels of indent. Then you could
record a macro that converts a list of pseudocode into a single column
table, inserts a column to the left, sizes the columns, applies numbering to
the first column.

Hope that helps,
Regards,
Chad

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