[Solved] The Annotated Skipper Dan

[sfdavis1089]

In the attached file, I used automatic line numbering starting with line "£1". In my annotations, however, I interposed a justifying zero for lines "£1" (thus rendered "£01") to "£9" (thus rendered "£09"). How would I insert the justifying zero in the automatic line numbers as well?

[hubert lambert]

Hi,

It's seems not possible to change the number formatting in this case.
A quite easy workaround would be to use a slightly different numbering rule for the first nine lines.
Regards.

[keme]

If the purpose of the zero is only to keep the colons aligned, one clutter free solution is to right align the numbering. Menu item Format - Bullets and numbering , tab Position.

See the attachment, where I set numbering right aligned at 0,8 cm.

The #/£ signs are not nicely aligned by this method. If you want that too, I think HL's suggestion above is the best workaround in Writer. There are other possible approaches, but none with less clutter...

Also, references to numbered paragraphs can be inserted as reference fields (which I did for the first couple of references) and you could create an "Annotation" style to match the numbering layout (which I didn't). Not highly useful in a document of this magnitude, but you'd benefit from it if you were to annotate something like "Hamlet" or David Jones' "In Parenthesis". Anyway it might be a useful practice...

[sfdavis1089]

I combined the best of both of your suggestions. Thanks.