how to add chapter numbers to the headings?

[karsten.burger]

Hello,

I see the chapter number in the status line at the bottom of the page, but cannot have them shown in the headings themself. The manual just states that it is numbered automatically, What can I do?

Thanks

[Michael Uplawski]

Moin

I see the chapter number in the status line at the bottom of the page, but cannot have them shown in the headings themself. The manual just states that it is numbered automatically, What can I do?

How did you define your heading and how did you define the chapter-format?

[karsten.burger]

When in my text document, I simply set cursor to the line, and select one of the heading levels from the drop-down menu, like "Überschrift 1" / "heading 1" from the "start" menu bar.

[Michael Uplawski]

I read in the manual that you have to insert the chapter-number as a field, i.e. using the menu-command
Insert|Field

[karsten.burger]

No, I do not want to insert a cross reference, but normal chapter numbering of the chapter headers. So I need to switch on numbering for all existing chapters, regardless of level.

1. my heading1
1.1 my heading 2
1.2 my heading 2
2. my heading1
2.1 my heading 2
....

[Michael Uplawski]

Explain the expression “cross-reference”, please.

[karsten.burger]

Thanks for the answer. But when I do this I always get number "1". Also this means I have to do this manually for each heading.

[sven-l]

I read in the manual that you have to insert the chapter-number as a field, i.e. using the menu-command
Insert|Field

Insert | Field is correct. Just insert the chapter number as a field in the header/footer and it should automatically appear on every page.

Note that while you can use numbered lists in headings, the numbers that appear there are automatically incrementing heading numbers and not the chapter number.

[karsten.burger]

Ok, but my question is how to get automatic numbering of chapters, please see post of Dec. 6th.

[martin-k]

You need to insert this as fields, it is not automatic.

[Michael Uplawski]

Ok, but my question is how to get automatic numbering of chapters, please see post of Dec. 6th.

You can do that outside of Textmaker, using XSLT on the expanded document.xml file, then routinely to make updates...
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[karsten.burger]

Sorry, but that can't be all:

If I import an existing Word document with chapter numbering, it ist shown and handled correctly. Number increments if I split one heading onto two. table-of-contents can be crerated correctly...

[Michael Uplawski]

If I import an existing Word document with chapter numbering, it ist shown and handled correctly. Number increments if I split one heading onto two. table-of-contents can be created correctly...

This only shows, that SoftMaker Office supports quite well the M$ file formats and can interpret formatting rules in these files. As regards “splitting of headings” and what my imagination lets me comprehend, it is possible that the support for the file-formats goes much further than what TextMaker itself is currently able to generate, meaning, Word® can define something in a file, TextMaker can interpret it, and comprehends (already) more of these formats than it is able to produce itself.

If your observations are correct and my interpretation is not too daring, then SoftMaker is cursed for having chosen OOXML as base for the TMDX format.

On the other hand, you can hope for a better support for your favorite text processor function in the future.

Edits: Kraut2English

[karsten.burger]

Thank you for your patience and the informations, Karsten

[sven-l]

Sorry, but that can't be all:

If I import an existing Word document with chapter numbering, it ist shown and handled correctly. Number increments if I split one heading onto two. table-of-contents can be crerated correctly...

Could you please provide a sample file (send it to forum(at)softmaker.com referring to this thread)? Thank you!