How can we start numbering at 0 instead of 1

[John Heinser]

We need the output numbering to start at 0. The reason is that our manuals have to correspond to global compliance issues for a certain industry. Their manuals start with Chapter 0 "General". 

So, our first Page after the Title Page is called "General". In the current output:

1 General

Is there a way we can modify / set variables so as to achieve the following:

0 General

Help greatly appreciated.

[Nils Bier _K15t_]

Hi John,

with Scroll PDF Exporter 4.x, it's currently not yet possible to have further control on the heading numbering.

We're tracking this in an existing feature request (see https://k15t.jira.com/browse/EXP-2079), and will work on this in an upcoming version.

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Besides starting the numbering with a certain number, would you need any additional functionality here? If so, please feel free to comment the issue, or leave a comment in this thread here.

Looking forward to your feedback.

Cheers,
Nils

[John Heinser]

Hi Nils thank you for your feedback. Will have to roll back to 3.x.

For technical/legal documentation purpses, there needs to be a little more control of TOC entries and headings. E.g.

• Doc Title
• Preamble
• List of Changes
• 0 General
• 1 Personnel
• 2 Facilities
• Appendix

At the moment it is too digital - Page titles are numbered ... or not.

For the work I am in, it is too limiting at the moment - but would open up a bunch of possibilities if enabled.

Regards

[Maarten Cautreels]

Hi John,

You can achieve this using the Confluence Source Editor.

This plugin allows you to edit the source html of a page which would allow you to add a start index to the <ol> tag. For example:

<ol start="0">
  <li>Number 0</li>
  <li>Number 1</li>
  <li>Number 2</li>
</ol>

Hope this helps.

Best,

Maarten

[John Heinser]

Hi Maarten - thank you for the quick reply. The issue, to be more specific is the following:

We are using Scroll .pdf Exporter (Version 4 and above). The exporter assigns Section numbering according to the Page Titles and Page Trees  (I am not talking about lists or headings within a page).

So the following Page Titles:

Page Title "General"

Page Title "Organization"

Page Title "Personnel"

would be numbered as follows (ny Scroll .pdf Exporter) during the .pdf export:

1 General

2 Organization

3 Personnel

However, I need to be able to start at 0. So:

0 General

1 Organization

2 Personnel

Can you help with this?