[pmwiki-users] Re: ordered lists - arbitrary start number

Jonathan Scott Duff duff at pobox.com
Thu Jun 30 20:30:43 CDT 2005


On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 01:38:49AM +0200, chr at home.se wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 11:34:26AM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > > 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
> > 
> > Correction -- Given the HTML 4 spec it should probably be "value", 
> > so that we end up with
> > 
> >       # %value=2517% text
> 
> What would %value=25% produce when used elsewhere?

Presumably nothing.

> I like it, except that it's not clear to me that %value=25% is specific to 
> enumerated lists. Would it be too much to write something like
> 
> 	# %enum value=25% 

If Pm is going to just mimic CSS's list-style-type it could be like
so:

#%decimal value=25%forty-seven!
#%lower-roman value=25%twenty-three!
#%upper-alpha value=25%fifty-six!
#%armenian value=25%hut hut hut!

with perhaps %value=25% as a short-hand for %decimal value=25%

Suddenly I feel my PmWikiPhilosophy#2 sense tingling  :)

-Scott
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Jonathan Scott Duff
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