Marking your lines on a document

[JZA]

How can I get a macro that will mark the number of the linea each 5th line. I want to have a document like this:
RIMA IV

No digáis que, agotado su tesoro,
de asuntos falta, enmudeció la lira;
podrá no haber poetas; pero siempre
habrá poesía.
Mientras las ondas de la luz al beso 5
palpiten encendidas,
mientras el sol las desgarradas nubes
de fuego y oro vista,
mientras el aire en su regazo lleve
perfumes y armonías, 10
mientras haya en el mundo primavera,
¡habrá poesía!
Mientras la ciencia a descubrir no alcance
las fuentes de la vida,
y en el mar o en el cielo haya un abismo 15
que al cálculo resista,
mientras la humanidad siempre avanzando
no sepa a dó camina,
mientras haya un misterio para el hombre,
¡habrá poesía! 20

Doing the macro recorder I saw that the uno:InsertPara (insert paragraph) should be counted and each 5th line it will be printed.
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[pitonyak]

I can think of a few ways to do this, but what do you really want?

Do you want to setup up a numbering style and use a style. I have not used them much, but if you can, then you do not really need a macro.

Do you want to have simple text sitting there. You would then select the entire section and tell it to add the line numbers, removing existing numbers if they are already there?

Do you want to use fields?

Are you numbering paragraphs or individual lines?
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[JZA]

A numbering style might be a choice, however it will be difficult to replicate the way is written originally.

I think the best way is your third option which narrow the function to the selection of the text as opposed to apply it to the whole document and that can re-build the structure of the number.

I don't see a difference at this point between being a field and text but I think fields will be more flexible when printing/viewing, etc.

I notice that the BBCode eat out the spaces on the previous post so here is something more exact:

[JZA]

[pitonyak]

I see that numbering always puts the numbering on the left, and you want the numbering on the right. This rules out numbering, even if you could figure out how to move the numbers, there is the issue of labeling every fifth line.

The problem with fields is that you need to insert and remove them if you insert text.
The problem with text fields is that you need to remove the text and also, you need to identify that the text is part of the numbering.

So, how do you move the text to the right? I guess that I will leave this as an "exercise for the reader"

[JZA]

[pitonyak]

Excellent! I left this as an exercise because I am busy. As such, I solved what I considered the hard part so that you can have some fun playing with macros as well!
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[JZA]

Will do, thanks Andrew
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Alexandro Colorado
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