Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 69)

Creating Documents 49
Figure 45
The List Style portion of the Style Sheet view (with the List’s palette)
Use list styles to automatically number figures, tables, etc.
In Nisus Writer Pro you can have as many automatically numbered items as you like. All you need
do is create a new list style for each set of numbered objects (as in this document, which has
“figures” and “tables” as well as numbered instructions).
1. Display Style Sheet view of your document as explained in “See the Style Sheet associated with
a document” on page 97.
2. Choose the menu command Insert > New Style > List Style.
3. Give your new style a meaningful name for example: “Caption Figure” or “Caption Table”.
4. Choose Numbered from the Kind pop-up menu.
5. Check (turn on) Continue numbering across document content.
6. Click Create.
Figure 46
Creating a numbered list style
You would probably want to apply some identifying text to appear before the number.
7. Select the Level 1 item in the List style’s hierarchy.
8. Open the Lists palette and type
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in the Before Text text edit box.
9. Press @ or < to confirm your entry as illustrated in Figure 47 below.