Syntax:

AUTONUMLGL [ switches ]

Description: For legal and technical publications, use the nine built-in heading styles to format headings in the document, and then insert an AUTONUMLGL field at the beginning of each heading paragraph. The numbers reflect the heading levels that correspond to the heading styles. If an AUTONUMLGL field is inserted in paragraphs of body text paragraphs not formatted with built-in heading styles, the number of the preceding heading is included in the paragraph number. [Note: This field is supported for legacy reasons, It is recommended that LISTNUM (§2.16.5.40) be used instead. end note]

This field only makes sense in terms of multi-level headings. Given the following headings:

Heading 1
Heading 2
Heading 2
Heading 1

this field allows

1. Heading 1
1.1. Heading 2
1.2. Heading 2
2. Heading 1

At each level, the numbering sequence does two things—it increments specific to that level, and it includes the value from the previous level.

The XML generated for a complex field implementation shall not have the optional field value stored.

Field Value: A new paragraph number in ascending sequential order.

Switches: Zero or one of the general-formatting-switches, or zero or more of the following field-specific-switches.

\e	Removes the trailing separator (period).
\s field-argument	text in this switch's field-argument specifies the separator character to be used. If \s is omitted, a period (.) is used.

[Example: When the following fields are updated:

AUTONUMLGL
AUTONUMLGL \* Arabic \s :
AUTONUMLGL \* alphabetic \s " "xxx
AUTONUMLGL \* ROMAN
AUTONUMLGL \e xxx

The results are:

1.
2:
c xxx
IV.
5xxx

end example]