diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fd5b767..ec5f847 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 # CourseBuilder
 
-
 Coursebuilder is a preprocessor tool for [pandoc](https://pandoc.org) 
 to generate multi-lingual curricula documentation tables from 
 structured representations as a flatfile database. Data scheme and 
@@ -10,7 +9,8 @@ actual values are kept in YAML files in order to version them with git.
 
 ```sh
 $> python coursebuilder  
-usage: [-h] [-m META [META ...]] [-l LANG] [-f FIELDS [FIELDS ...]] [-s SCHEMA] [-p] [-t] [-b BOOK]
+usage:  [-h] [-m META [META ...]] [-l LANG] [-f FIELDS [FIELDS ...]] [-s SCHEMA] [-p] [-t] [-b BOOK] [--level LEVEL]
+        [--table-gen TABLE_GEN]
 
 versatile curricula generator
 
@@ -26,11 +26,14 @@ options:
   -p, --pagebreak       add a pagebreak after each module
   -t, --title           take first value in list as title
   -b BOOK, --book BOOK  process a whole curriculum book with sections
+  --level LEVEL         level of header tags
+  --table-gen TABLE_GEN
+                        runs table generator
 ```
 
 # Author
 
-(c) Copyright 2020-2023 Hartmut Seichter
+© Copyright 2020-2024 Hartmut Seichter
 
 
 # Licence
diff --git a/coursebuilder/__main__.py b/coursebuilder/__main__.py
index 2234625..d92d24d 100644
--- a/coursebuilder/__main__.py
+++ b/coursebuilder/__main__.py
@@ -78,11 +78,21 @@ class CourseBuilder:
         else:
             return [self.process_label(field,lang),enum_val]
 
-    def process_int(self,meta,field,lang='de'):
+    def process_num(self,meta,field,lang='de'):
         v = meta[field]['value']
         t = string.Template(self.get_template(field,lang))
         return [self.process_label(field,lang),t.substitute({'value' : v})]
     
+    def process_multinum(self,meta,field,lang='de'):
+        v = meta[field]['value']
+        t = string.Template(self.get_template(field,lang))
+        if hasattr(v, "__len__"):
+            vv = [t.substitute({'value' : ev}) for ev in v]
+            return [self.process_label(field,lang),', '.join(vv)]
+        else:
+            return self.process_num(meta=meta,field=field,lang=lang)
+    
+    
     def process_multikey(self,meta,field,lang='de'):
         """
         multikey need to assign a numeric value to a key
@@ -109,7 +119,8 @@ class CourseBuilder:
             match self.__schema[field]['type']: 
                 case 'str': table_items.append(self.process_str(meta,field,lang)) 
                 case 'enum': table_items.append(self.process_enum(meta,field,lang))
-                case 'int': table_items.append(self.process_int(meta,field,lang))
+                case ['int', 'num'] : table_items.append(self.process_num(meta,field,lang))
+                case 'multinum' : table_items.append(self.process_multinum(meta,field,lang))
                 case 'multikey': table_items.append(self.process_multikey(meta,field,lang))
 
         mdg = MarkdownGenerator()
@@ -154,7 +165,7 @@ def main():
     parser.add_argument('-b','--book',type=str,help="process a whole curriculum book with sections")
     parser.add_argument('--level',type=int,default=1,help="level of header tags")
     parser.add_argument('--table-gen',type=str,default=None,help='runs table generator')
-
+    
     
     # get arguments
     args = parser.parse_args()
diff --git a/test/simple/Makefile b/test/simple/Makefile
index 1c46c26..8ea5c11 100644
--- a/test/simple/Makefile
+++ b/test/simple/Makefile
@@ -9,4 +9,9 @@ table.de.pdf:
 all: table.en.pdf table.de.pdf
 
 clean: 
-	rm table.en.pdf table.de.pdf
\ No newline at end of file
+	rm -f table.en.pdf table.de.pdf
+
+
+debug:
+	python ../../coursebuilder -s schema.yaml -m mod.cg.yaml -l de -f fields.yaml
+
diff --git a/test/simple/mod.cg.yaml b/test/simple/mod.cg.yaml
index 6a1e04b..55d76c4 100644
--- a/test/simple/mod.cg.yaml
+++ b/test/simple/mod.cg.yaml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ form-of-instruction:
   value: { 'lecture': 2, 'exersise': 1 }
 
 term:
-  value: 1
+  value: [1, 3]
 
 duration:
   value: 1
diff --git a/test/simple/schema.yaml b/test/simple/schema.yaml
index 9186a4a..9a46893 100644
--- a/test/simple/schema.yaml
+++ b/test/simple/schema.yaml
@@ -181,12 +181,12 @@ workload:
 #
 # credits/ECTS
 #
-credits: 
+credits:
+    type: num 
     label: { 
         en: "credits and weight of mark",
         de: "Kreditpunkte und Gewichtung der Note in der Gesamtnote"
     }
-    type: int
     template: 
         de: "${value}CP Gewichtung: ${value}CP von 120CP "
         en: "${value}CP weight: ${value} / 120 "    
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ term:
         de: "Semester",
         en: "term"
     }
-    type: int
+    type: multinum
     template: 
         de: " ${value}. Semester"
         en: " ${value}. semester"