How to get auto chapter numbers in TOC

[kmorrison]

I've been trying to figure out how to add chapter numbers to the TOC for my PDF output. Ideally this should happen automatically, because it's a long document in which chapters get split/merged/rearranged fairly often. I don't want to have to manually re-number dozens of chapters, because it's a tedious and probably error-prone process.

I added an mc-auto-number-format, "Chapter {chapnum}:" to the chapter-level TOC paragraph style in the CSS, (p.TOC2). I checked that it's in the print medium. The autonumber is ignored when I generate the PDF, though other changes that I made to the style appear. Does anyone have any ideas? Am I missing something? Am I using an entirely wrong approach?

[Lydia]

The mc-auto-number-format should be set on the heading style, e.g. the h1 style. If you don't have/want numbers in your content, I don't think you can make them appear in the TOC.

[LTinker68]

I added an mc-auto-number-format, "Chapter {chapnum}:" to the chapter-level TOC paragraph style in the CSS, (p.TOC2). I checked that it's in the print medium. The autonumber is ignored when I generate the PDF, though other changes that I made to the style appear.

If you use the {chapnum} placeholder, then I believe you also have to specify to use the chapter number in the TOC entry (entries?), or at least set the first chapter and set the rest to auto-increment. I normally use the {n+} placeholder instead, so it doesn't matter if I identify a TOC entry as being the start of a chapter or not; it's just based on the presence of an h1 tag to increment the number. Other users are more familiar with the {chapnum} placeholder, so if I missed something, hopefully one of them will speak up.

[Nita Beck]

Yes, Lisa, you're right. One must edit the TOC properties for the books that begin the various chapters.

For the Chapter 1 TOC item, one needs to set a Chapter break and then to set the autonumbers to begin at 1. For all other chapter books, one must set a Chapter break but set the autonumbers to increment.