Stray bullets in TOC


we use 2 parallel templates 3 heading levels, 1 numbered headings , other unnumbered. headings used in toc. <br /><br />numbered headings work fine, if section preceding heading in unnumbered variant includes bulleted or numbered paragraphs, bullet or number appears in front of following toc entry. example<br />  heading 1<br />     text<br />     <bullet> text<br />     heading 2<br />       text<br />       <bullet> text<br />       heading 3<br />       ...<br />generates toc <br />   heading 1<br />   <bullet> heading 2<br />   <bullet> heading 3<br /><br />can't seem able rid of this. <br />margaret bower had thread last august similar mess-up page numbering, apparently resolved using different numbering streams different purposes. although our problem looks though might related, playing numbering/bulleting streams doesn't help.<br /><br />the templates numbered , unnumbered heading variants identical except numbering has been removed <br /><br />what's going on? , more importantly, how can fix (except manually editing toc after generation)?<br /><br />the problem applies both versions 7 , 8.

solved our own problem!
the unnumbered template created numbered template, , toc entries on reference pages still had <$paranumonly> items in format definitions. seem value of <$paranumonly> set bullet bulleted paragraph not reset empty non-bulleted paragraph. bullet value carry on value of <$paranumonly> until next paragraph uses autonumbering.


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