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Amanda, 

Van's recommendation to use different counter sequences is a good one, since it shows you how interleave numbering for different types of paragraphs within a FrameMaker document. This situation occurs in other situations. If, for example, you number sections within a chapter, you certainly do not want the presence of a numbered list within a section to affect the number of the next section. Using different sequences allows you to prevent interaction between such numbers. 

However, since you refer to "sub-lettering", I guess that you use the LetteredA and Lettered paragraph formats only for sublists of the lists created with formats Numbered1 and Numbered. If this is correct, a variation of Van's suggestion is to use multiple counters within one autonumber sequence. You won't need paragraph format LetteredA at all. Simply change the autonumber for format Lettered from <a+> to < ><a+>. Note the single space within the first set of angle brackets.

Each FrameMaker autonumber sequence contains an arbitrary number of counters. Any counters that do not appear in a paragraph's autonumber are reset to 0. Suppose you want to use a "dot-style" numbering for sections in a document that may have three levels of sections, subsections, and sub-subsections. Within the same autonumber sequence (say, S: for "section"), you can use the first counter for the section number, the second for the subsection number, and the third for the sub-subsection number. Your paragraph formats for the section, subsection, and sub-subsection head paragraphs can then use autonumbers such as the following:



S:Section <n+>
S:Section <n>.<n+>
S:Section <n>.<n>.<n+>

Here, the format for the section head adds 1 to the first counter level and clears the second and third level. The format for the subsection head displays the first counter level with no change (the absence of a plus sign tells FrameMaker to display it without changing it), displays a period, and then increments and displays the second level, and clears the third level. The format for the sub-subsection head displays without change the first two counters, and increments and displays the third level (separating display of the three levels with periods). Thus, these formats allow successive heads in a document to be numbered:

Section 1
Section 2
Section 2.1
Section 2.1.1
Section 2.1.2
Section 2.2
Section 3

and so on.

Now suppose your sections may also contain figures and tables and that these are numbered in a "section number, dash, figure number" or "section number, dash, table number" style regardless of whether they appear in a subsection or sub-subsection so that, for example, Figures 2-1 and 2-2 might appear within sub-section 2.1.1 while Table 2-1 might not appear until section 2.2. The autonumbers for figure captions and table titles must use the same autonumber sequence as sections do, so that they can include the section number. However, they cannot display or change the subsection and sub-subsection numbers. FrameMaker allows an autonumber to preserve the value of a counter without displaying it. To do so, simply include a set of angle brackets with a space instead of a code such as an n or an a. To extend this section numbering example, you can use the 4th counter for figure numbers and the 5th for table numbers. Since numbering for subsections, sub-subsections, figures, and tables, all start over at each section, the above autonumber for sections does not need to change. For subsections use:



Section <n>.<n+>.< =0>< >< >

This autonumber displays the first level without change, increments and displays the second level, resets the third level without display, and preserves the fourth and fifth levels without display. (The last two sets of angle brackets are important, without them, figure and table numbers would be reset.) Analogously, the sub-subsection autonumber should be changed to:

Section <n>.<n>.<n+>< >< >

to display the first two levels with no change, increment and display the third level, and preserve the last two levels without display.



Figure captions would use the autonumber:

Figure <n>-< >< ><n+>< >

and table numbers would use:

Table <n>-< >< >< ><n+>

To return to your question, the suggestion is to use the first counter within the sequence for the outer list and the second counter for the nested list.

--Lynne