Autonumbering and variables

I typeset text books that use section numbering in their subheadings. Previously we've worked in Framemaker and are now converting over to InDesign. In Framemaker, we would use autonumbering in the paragraph styles for the subheads. We were able to have the subhead section numbering appear in the upper corners of the page by working with Framemaker's variable settings.
Now that we're using InDesign, we've tried to fix this problem by creating nested styles within the subheads. This doesn't seem to work when we apply the autonumbering in the paragraph styles, and only works when actual text is present.

I'm not sure if the commercial In-Tools.com's Power Headers InDesign plug-in can capture the auto-number of an InDesign numbered-list paragraph style, so it could be worth your investigating here: http://in-tools.com/products/plugins/power-headers/
Note the suggestion on that page: "For more information on what can be accomplished with Power Headers, please check out the forum here."
You can also contact the folks from the Contact Us link with your specific questions.
And, you might want to test the downloadable trial version in your documents.
Please post what you learn.
And though it's truly a wish with no guarantee of being granted, consider adding your voice for the ability for running header text variables to capture list auto-numbers, with a formal feature request here: Wishform.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
Peter Gold
KnowHow ProServices
Joel Cherney wrote:
Yeah, this one is tough. More and more I think about revisiting Frame (I haven't used it since version 6, I think) for situations just like this. I can just guess from the treatise & answer-book structure that you're dealing with long documents and want as much of this as possible to happen without user intervention. The TOC tool and the cross-references tool both pick up numbered lists, but it seems that text variables do not. So it must be doable for InDesign CS n+1, but a feature request doesn't carry much weight, especially if you are already midstream in conversion to ID.

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