Hello. I am writing a linguistics paper, and in this field it is standard
practice for example sentences to be given numbers in parentheses, e.g.,
(23), then to be referenced within the text by the same number, again in
parentheses. Somehow - I forgot how now - I managed to get it to work, so
now, instead of what appears to be the default for a Listnum field, namely
lower case Roman numerals, my Listnums appear as they should, with
parentheses around Arabic numerals. Also I managed to figure out that this
information is stored in a little dot to the left of headings. So now
whenever I want to write another paper, I copy in a heading from one that has
the correctly formatted 'dot'. (I don't mean 'document template', I mean dot,
like a period.)

But sometimes this system goes awry. Say, if I stuff in a heading somewhere
just by selecting a heading from the list of styles in the tool bar at the
upper left. And then everything reverts back to the lower case Roman numeral
system, and sometimes I can't get it back even by deleting the heading I had
chosen. Also, unless I have a style with the word 'heading' in its name, my
heading never seems to appear in the document map, and I want it to appear in
the document map.

What determines these whether a heading appears in the document map? Could
it really be the fact of having the word 'heading' in the style names? How
did I ever get it my numbers to appear as Arabic numerals with parentheses
around them as they should, so in the future I won't have to achieve the
effect by the above-described circuitous route? If I just copy the dot I
finally got to work to other headings in the document, I lose the
hierarchical relations in the document map. And why can't I seem to select
the dot directly? How can I edit what' in it?

Please help! Or if you know a good book I should buy which explains all
this, please let me know of it.

Thanks!
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Peyton Todd