Header levels (conditional / relative)

[Scotty]

I have two target outputs for release notes:

• Release notes for specific release x.y
• Release notes containing all releases x.*

Release notes for a specific release x.y use header levels as expected - h1 for chapter title level, and so on down:
h1 - Introduction to Release notes
h1 - New features
h1 - Fixes

However, for the x.* release notes, each release version should be the top level header:

h1 - 1.1
h1 - 1.1.1
h1 - 1.1.2
h1 - 1.2

...with each release nested:

h1 - 1.1
...h2 - Introduction to Release notes
...h2 - New features
...h2 - Fixes
h1 - 1.1.1
...

The problem being, the h1 levels in the x.y release notes are now needed at h2 level.

Is there a way to set header level to a conditional level or relative level?

As an aside, what overall strategies do you use to deal with these types of scenarios? I can think of some fairly dirty solutions, but I'd rather keep this as clean and automated as possible.

[devjoe]

Assuming you are using a PDF target for your release notes, you could set the option which sets heading levels using the TOC. Then you have a TOC for each x.y version and the x.* TOC includes each of the other ones one level indented.

[Scotty]

Assuming you are using a PDF target for your release notes, you could set the option which sets heading levels using the TOC. Then you have a TOC for each x.y version and the x.* TOC includes each of the other ones one level indented.

That's done the trick, TIL.

Thanks!