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pittagentskip007

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Multple levels of child elements as nested bullets
« on: November 02, 2011, 06:30:02 am »
Hi all,

Trying to get EA to print requirements that are captured as child elements three or four levels deep as a bullet point list where the bullet list level matches the child entity level.

So the following element structure would yield a bullet point list when printed that looks like it

Requirement 1
   Requirement 1.1
     Requirement 1.1.1
       Requirement 1.1.1.1

Anybody know how to do this?

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Re: Multple levels of child elements as nested bul
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2011, 09:53:24 am »
Can't be done.

EA appears only to recognise Heading 1 ... Heading 9 as syles that can be nested.
For example it is not possible to specify to EA that, say, styles "Appendix 1 ... Appendix 9" or "bullet 1 ... bullet 9" should be nested.

Another reason why this doesn't work is that EA does not use a style for bullets and numbers (this has been the subject of feature requests), it simply formats it (style remains "Normal") in the RTF output (leaving no easy way for bullets look and feel to be changed in the generated document - this is a shame)
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