Auto-numbering in Top Nav - problem with "outside-head"

[jbananak]

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How now do I create a paragraph, in which in the numbering is hanging out to the left and the text is aligned with itself and not the number, and yet behaves like a normal paragraph?
Sounds simple.. well.
I have created an autonumbering style in which the only difference between that style and the default <p> style is that it has auto-numbering (for example {n+}, offset default, and mc-auto-number-position="outside-head".
(The "outside-head" choice means that the text is aligned with itself and the number is outside the text... hanging paragraph).

Now this is great, except in TopNav, when I use "outside-head" (and I checked the other options "float left", "inside'head", "default", etc...), and I have a miniTOC on the right side of the page, the text does not wrap like it should to fit into the window to the left of the minitoc. It leaves a huge space and starts only after the bottom of the miniTOC.

It is definitely connected to the "outside-head" parameter (I didn't work in QA for 5 years in a previous life for nothing!).
I have submitted a bug report to Madcap, because I see it as a bug; meanwhile, I need a solution so that I don't have these big spaces in my topics where there is autonumbering.
Anyone?
Thanks
Joanna

[NorthEast]

This is a bit of a strange one.

When you use outside-head, Flare will generate the autonumber as a table in the output; so in the HTML you'll see something like this:

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<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 100%; margin-left: 0;" class="AutoNumber_p_numbered">
...
...

Note that code includes the style width:100% - because it wants to be the full width, it can't fit alongside any floated elements, so will be positioned below them.

Anyway, since Flare is hard-coding the width (for what reason, I've no idea), you'll have to use some CSS to counteract this.
This will set the width to 'auto' for any table with a class name including 'AutoNumber':

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table[class*="AutoNumber"]
{
    width: auto !important;
}

[jbananak]

Thank you so much.
Joanna