[pmwiki-users] Breaking a numbered list

John Rankin john.rankin at affinity.co.nz
Fri Oct 26 15:51:28 CDT 2007


>   4. Re: Breaking a numbered list? (Tony C.)
>I've run into this, too, and the solution provided is less than
>optimal. 
>
>It's not always easy to know what that resuming number should be; and
>more likely, someone someday will add an item to the preceding portion
>of the list and not notice or forget the "value=".
>
>Would it be possible to define a page variable (or whatever they're
>called) that would provide the "next number" that should go in the
>"value="? In other words, one would do something like
>"value=$NextListNumber" (I forget the actual variable syntax, but I
>hope you get the idea).
>
>I'm sure this isn't something supported by HTML; but, while processing
>the wiki source, it seems like the pmwiki parser could be made to keep
>track of it (I didn't say it would necessarily be an easy task, just
>that it's probably possible).

I propose the following markup:

# item 1
# item 2
(:suspend#:)

whatever you want to put here

(:resume#:)
# item 3

This could even nest:

# outer item 1
## item 1
## item 2
(:suspend##:)

whatever you want to put here is still part of outer item 1

(:resume##:)
## item 3
# outer item 2

Just my 10¢ worth. I agree that it is too easy to forget to change 
value when updating the list.

>>   # The first line in a list
>>   # The second line in a list
>> 
>>   This line is un-numbered, but
>> 
>>   # %item value=3% this should be the third item (3., not 1.)
>>   # and this should be the fourth (4., not 2.)
>> 
>> See the section on lists in
>> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/BasicEditing
>> 
>> Pm
>
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JR
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