Exclude a chapter from autonumbering

[Liduine]

Hello all,
Today I managed to get the autonumbering right; I made a new .css file, it is based on an existing one, since I took over a project that is already working, but I want to number the chapters and sections.

This is what I did:
for the chapters:

• in the .css file: h1: mc-auto-number-format {chapnum}
  in the properties>Printed output: Chapter break

for the sections:

• in the .css file: h2: mc-auto-number-format {chapnum}.{secnum}
  in the properties>Printed output: New section.

That works well. But the last chapter is the Index, and I don't want it to have a number, so I looked for a way to exclude the last chapter from autonumbering.

Is the procedure described above right?
What can I do to exclude the Index from autonumbering?

Regards,
Liduine

[Nita Beck]

Welcome to the forums!

I suggest that you not add the auto-numbering to the base h1 selector. In my own practice, I typically have h1.Chp and h1.Apx selectors in which I define auto-numbering for chapters and appendixes, respectively. That way, I can use the base h1 for things like the Index and Glossary (when I include a Glossary).

Hope this helps.

[Liduine]

Thank you Nita!
I learned a lot today. I didn't know that these things are called selectors, I wasn't even aware that you can add your own .
Now I did as you recommended and it works. Wonderful! I made 2 new selectors under the h1., it seems they inherit all other variables from the h1 above.
Regards,
Liduine

[Nita Beck]

I think "selector" is the official name per CSS, put authors also refer to them as styles. You can most definitely create your own selectors/styles.

To get the most out of Flare, you'll need to build up your CSS muscles. You might want to read through Flare's documentation about styles, starting here: https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare20 ... Styles.htm

From there, you can access a PDF guide, which you might find easier than reading through Help topics.

Plus, there are videos for working with stylesheets.

[NorthEast]

Sorry to butt in, but to avoid a lot of future confusion, this type of style is called "class" - not a "selector".

So a class in the CSS might look like this:

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h1.chap { mc-auto-number-format: '{chapnum}'; }

And when you use the class in the HTML code looks, it looks like this with a "class" attribute:

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<h1 class="chap">Chapter heading</h1>

A "selector" is just the bit at the start of the CSS line that specifies what you want to style, e.g.

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h1.chap {}
h1#banner {}
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {}
div.note > p {}

See: https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_selectors.asp

[Nita Beck]

You’re not butting in, my friend! You are rightly correcting my faulty tutelage, for which we are all better off. Plus, I violated a primary rule of tech writing: Accuracy!

[ChoccieMuffin]

Getting back to the question, if I have a selector (style) where most of them are a certain way but there are a couple of exceptions, I make the most common one the default. So in this case my h1 would have a chapter number, but then I'd make h1.NoChapNum that doesn't have a chapter number and only apply that style on the odd occasions where I need it.