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I like to use numbered lists for step-by-step procedures. In Dokuwiki I found a shortcoming of the numbered list implementation: I cannot enter anything other than inline text into such step-by-step procedures. I would love to insert a box with some command line example or some screen output. Whenever I try this my numbering starts again.
There might be implications for the XML representation if we introduced some optional "numbering starts here". In Framemaker you use a special paragraph format "first step" to set numbering to 1. The normal "step" pragraph format simply increments the step counter.
In HTML I would need something like
<ol>\\
<li>...\\
<li>... <some specific element>\\
<li>...\\
</ol>\\
\\
Alexander von Obert 13.12.06 17:45:11
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I like to use numbered lists for step-by-step procedures. In Dokuwiki I found a shortcoming of the numbered list implementation: I cannot enter anything other than inline text into such step-by-step procedures. I would love to insert a box with some command line example or some screen output. Whenever I try this my numbering starts again.
There might be implications for the XML representation if we introduced some optional "numbering starts here". In Framemaker you use a special paragraph format "first step" to set numbering to 1. The normal "step" pragraph format simply increments the step counter.
In HTML I would need something like
<ol>\\
<li>...\\
<li>... <some specific element>\\
<li>...\\
</ol>\\
\\
-- Alexander von Obert 13.12.06 17:45:11
Hello Alexander, I moved your post to the bottom of the page to preserve the chronological order.
The use case you mention seems to be pretty popular, unfortunately very hard to do right in a language that doesn't allow arbitrary nesting. And languages with such nesting are usually pretty tricky to learn and use.
I think that adding this amount of complexity to Creole might be unwise.
As of reseting numbering, (X)HTML has it really, really awkward -- you'd need to fall back to the parser keeping track of the numbers -- at this point you can as well just do it manually.
I don't want to go against your habits, but I believe there is a number of alternate ways of putting this kind of list down on a page -- the most obvious seems to be using headings that are, after all, designed to separate the text into sections, not just merely list some points. There are wiki engines that will even allow you number the headings automatically.
In addition, meaningful titles intead of numbers make more sense in dynamic medium like wiki -- especially if you want to make sure that the item you refer to didn't move in the mean time...
-- [[RadomirDopieralski]], 2006-12-13
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