Outline numbering in Section Layouts?

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Hi,

I love Scrivener and am currently attempting to design a compile format to match an American “Law Review” article. These articles have a standard format with a hierarchy of defined section types. I’ve defined section types in my Project Settings and am now attempting to define Section Layouts to match each type.

The difficulty I’ve encountered is that I’m not sure how to get Scrivener to restart outline sequences (other than 1, 2, 3 which can be created as <$sn>) in front of section titles.

When compiled, the desired structure is to have headings in the document follow the pattern below. I’ve marked with carets the part I don’t know how to create:

I. First Part
A. First Section of First Part

  1. First Subsection of that Section
    B. Second Section of First Part

II. Second Part

A. First Section of Second Part <<<

  1. First Subsection of that section

In other words, I don’t know how to restart the section lettering. Logically, in the same way that <$sn> restarts a series of Arabic numerals, I would hope that <$sR> would use the same logic to restart a series of uppercase letters. But it doesn’t seem to work.

Am I right to imagine that this function simply doesn’t exist at present? If so, I’d be very glad to see it introduced!

David

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Wait – just figured it out!

What I needed was to add a title suffix that restarts the numbering for the numbering series below. Thus, for parts the prefix is <$R> and the suffix is <$rst_L>, resetting the lettering for the Sections that follow. Similarly, sections have a title prefix of <$L> and title suffix of <$rst_n> to reset the subsection numbering.