5.6 Fields for Sequencing and Outlining  ↑

5.6.4 Display Seq

The word display-seq can be used as both a label and a type.

A Collection is not expected to have more than one field of type display-seq.

A display-seq field is meant to complement another field of type Seq.

A display-seq field can be useful in a situation where the seq field is being used to keep notes in order but, for some or all of the notes in the collection, an alternate numbering scheme would be more useful for general display to the reader.

When the Streamlined Reading option is being used, then, for Notes actually containing a non-blank display-seq field, the display-seq value will be displayed in several places where the seq field itself would otherwise be displayed.

A display-seq field can only be added to a Collection by editing the Collection Template file.

See the following example for one way such a line might be inserted.

Idea Number: <displayseq: No._XXX_&ndash;_>

The text following the <displayseq: , if present, will be used for formatting each display-seq value for display. The XXX literal will be replaced by the display-seq value. Underscores will be replaced with spaces.