Auto-numbering gone wrong

[Vibeke B]

Hi again!
Can anyone help me out here? I have a manual written in English and my colleagues used MadCap Lingo to localize it to Arabic. Now the numbering has gone wrong.

The auto-numbering settings for each topic and the TOC should be correct, or at least they are the same as the English version where all was good. Attaching an image. All the 3.1 should renumber automatically. I cannot pinpoint where this goes wrong. Any ideas? Thanks!

[Nita Beck]

I would first look in the stylesheet. In the auto-number format definitions, was {n+} changed to {n}, perhaps?

[Vibeke B]

Hi Nita,

I tried to change {n+} to {n} this but that does not fix it. Instead of all the numbers being 3.1 and 3.0.1, they all turn into 3.0 and 3.0.0, but they are still repeated and do not increment.

But thanks for your suggestion.

[Nita Beck]

Sorry that I wasn't clear.

I wasn't suggesting that that was the fix, but rather that that would be the problem. It should be {n+} if it's going to increment. If it had been changed to {n}, that would stop the incrementing.

Would you post the code for your headings from the stylesheet in the translated project so we can take a look?

[Vibeke B]

Thanks Nita, for tying to help. As you can see from my reply, I am not an advanced user. But here is are the styles from the style sheet. I cannot say I totally understand them. I inherited the project and do not have formal training in CSS.

h1
{
border-bottom-width: 0px;
column-break-after: auto;
line-height: 1.3;
font-size: 1.3em;
font-weight: bold;
mc-auto-number-format: 'GH:{chapnum}{ } ';
mc-heading-level: 1;
mc-auto-number-position: inside-head;
orphans: 3;
page-break-after: avoid;
page-break-inside: avoid;
}



h2
{
column-break-after: auto;
page-break-inside: auto;
font-size: 1.2em;
font-weight: bold;
margin-bottom: 4px;
margin-top: 20px;
mc-auto-number-format: '{chapnum}.{n+} ';
mc-auto-number-offset: 0px;
mc-auto-number-position: inside-head;
mc-heading-level: 2;
orphans: 3;
page-break-after: avoid;


}

h3
{
font-size: 1.1em;
font-weight: bold;
column-break-after: auto;
margin-bottom: 4px;
margin-top: 16px;
margin-bottom: 0;
margin-top: 0;
orphans: 3;
page-break-inside: auto;
page-break-after: avoid;
mc-auto-number-format: '{chapnum}.{n}.{n+} ';
mc-auto-number-position: inside-head;
mc-heading-level: 3;
}

h4
{
mc-heading-level: 4;
mc-auto-number-position: inside-head;
font-size: 9pt;
page-break-after: avoid;
mc-auto-number-format: '{chapnum}.{Cn}.{n}.{n+} ';
}

h5
{
mc-heading-level: 5;
}

[Vibeke B]

I got a reply from support and wanted to share it in case others have the same problem.

The mc-auto-number-format property that was set for the h2, h3, and h4 elements in my project were set to

'{chapnum}.{n}.{n+} ' ;

but they should have a CH: in the front like this:

'CH:{chapnum}.{n}.{n+} ';


Works like a charm now!