[pmwiki-users] ordered lists - arbitrary start number

[Neil Herber]

At 2005-06-30  11:34 AM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud is rumored to have said:
>I suppose we could key on whitespace here, so that "#2517" produces
>the first, while "# 2517" produces the second.  I also wonder if this
>should be a wikistyle:
>
>     # %start=2517% text
>
>This latter one makes a little more sense if we recall outline
>lists, plus doesn't have much in the way of ambiguity.
>
>     # %roman start=3%    This starts the list as "c." .
>
>Comments, ideas?

I would vote for the wikistyle markup.

Things that rely on spaces tend to be very easy to miss or misunderstand. 
(My pet peeve in this regard is the use of a leading space before [=...=] 
markup.)


Neil

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