Hello all,
In our current unstructured documents, we have a style that handles what we call "major" steps, which are tasks that can be by themselves or most often are no as they are normally in just one context. I could use <substeps> but the numbering scheme is reset, and these major steps normally involve a multitude of steps, not just one or two token sub-steps. Our major step is formatted like a heading, and there is a prefix of Step1 and StepN. We curently handle this using the Autonumber format in the paragraph designer (in our unstructured environ). In our structured DITA environment, I would like to retain that style since it is very popular with our users.
I am thinking that a change in the EDD is all I need as I could change the autonumber format based on a context. My question is, can I use a combination of {first}, etc ..rules with the ELEMENT < ELEMENT rule? My structure example appears below:
<task>
<title>
<shortdesc>
<task>
With that second-level <task> being the MAJOR step. The highest level task is the MAIN user task, and would only required a <title> and <shortdesc>.
The Context rule "task < task" works for the first major step, but I need to handle the subsequent najor steps.
Any help or even an alternate way to handle this is greatly appreciated.
Thanks much
Tom