Chapter/section autonumbering in image caption and footer

[michelo]

Hi Antoni, thank you for your request.

I’ve just tried : the figures numbering is now correct for section 1.1 but the problem remains identical for other sections. And the section numbering itself doesn’t increment too from chapter 7 (???).

Maybe it’s a bug : when I searched on the net, I came across a Scrivener forum post from “Keith”, in June 2018 (Mac version) :

Here’s the bottom :

IMPORTANT NOTE: While putting together this reply, I noticed that there is a bug in the current version of Scrivener whereby the above example will not work correctly. When you compile using 3.0.2, you will notice that the hierarchical numbering in my sample project comes out wrong, with both 2.1 and 2.2 being labelled “2.1”. I have fixed this for 3.0.3, which will be out later this week or early next week, so please wait for that to test this properly.

Full post :

Automatic hierarchical section title numbering in compile

JohnF has given you a good answer here, which should set you on your way. Just to add: As JohnF says, you can use <$hn>, which will use periods instead of dashes but otherwise does as you want. You do not have to put placeholders directly in titles - in fact I would strongly recommend against it for exactly the reasons you give (it would look unwieldy and render binder titles difficult to read). This is exactly what title prefixes are for in Compile. In Compile, you would create a “Section L…

So I plan to open a support ticket, and will post the answer here.

Michel