Automatically number two parallel lists with global counters

[Jorge1]

The documents I help to write follow some of the same conventions of Brazilian laws. The basic unit of text is the artigo. Each is introduced by the abbreviation “Art.”. They are numbered sequentially, with ordinal 1-digit numerals (therefore “Art. 1º” to “Art. 9º”) and then cardinal numerals followed by a dot (“Art. 10.”, “Art. 11.”, etc.). We group articles into sections (“seções”), which should appear in a table of contents. Sections should be numbered sequentially with roman numerals. I already defined sections as level 1 in the outline, which worked fine. But I cannot define articles as level 2 in the outline, because then their numbering would restart at 1 at each section. Also, I need ordinal numerals from 1º to 9º and cardinal numerals starting with 10. How can I achieve this? A hypothetical example, in English:

Contents

Section I – Objective

Section II – Nomenclature

Section III - Regulations

…

Section I – Objective

Art. 1º …

Section II – Nomenclature

Art. 2º …

Section III - Regulations

Art. 3º …

…

Art. 9º …

Art. 10. …

Art. 11. …

[ROSt53]

Tools > Outline Numbering here you can choose from for each level a certain character set.

However, Writer follows the normal and reasonable standard this means
Section I
Art1
Section II
Art2 is not possible

Possible is
Section I
Art1
Section II
Art1
Art2
Art3

Please have a look at the Outline Numbering Window and see what matches your requirements.

I recommend to have a look at the free guides, which you can download from http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/

I case of further questions, raise them here.

[Jorge1]

I have solved the problem with numbering styles. I created one numbering style for the first 9 articles, another style for the rest of the articles, and one numbering style for the numbered sections. This does what I needed.