Numbered Lists - Continue numbering

[dwasyl]

Hi there,

I'm working on converting a few documents that have interrupted numbered lists and then the new list continues numbering from the original. I've gone through the XML and continued list items are correctly tagged with the same numId.

Since HTML has no ability to join lists, I considered either starting the new <ol> with the correct start value, or tagging each <li> with a value property.

From considering the two options, it looks like the <li value=X> option would be best. Would it be possible to keep an item count for each numbered lists style/id and then write the <li value=X> tag based on the current item number for that list style?

At the same time, is there a way to convert a numbered list to simple numbered paragraphs? OpenOffice converts numbered lists to HTML this way - although it still restarts even when it's a continuing list.

[mwilliamson]

Could you provide a minimal example document, the HTML that you're currently getting, and the HTML that you expect?

[dwasyl]

@mwilliamson Certainly can, should I just send it to the hello e-mail address?

EDIT:
In general though, what I'm referring to is a document setup like this:

1. List Item 1
2. List Item 2
Some non-list text
3. List item 3

By default List item 3 would be part of a new list and numbering would restart at 1, however, if the item is set to Continue Numbering then it gets set to the same list (numId) as the previous list and carries on the count. Currently when this is converted into HTML it looks like:

<ol>
  <li>List item 1</li>
  <li>List item 2</li>
</ol>
<p>Some non-list text</p>
<ol>
  <li>List item 3</li>
</ol>

This results in a numbering of:

1. List Item 1
2. List Item 2
Some non-list text
1. List item 3

The only way I could come up with to set the numbering for this type of list would be a value for each <li>, so the HTML would look like:

<ol>
  <li value="1">List item 1</li>
  <li value="2">List item 2</li>
</ol>
<p>Some non-list text</p>
<ol>
  <li value="3">List item 3</li>
</ol>

Another approach would be to flatten the list to show text (1., 2., 3.) instead of HTML (<ol><li>).

I will e-mail you some sample files and similar text.

[mwilliamson]

If you could post it to this issue, that'll make sure it doesn't get lost.

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On Wed, 30 May 2018 20:08:55 -0700 dwasyl ***@***.***> wrote: @mwilliamson Certainly can, should I just send it to the hello e-mail address?

[dwasyl]

@mwilliamson Did you see the edit to my reply? I tried to layout the current/desired HTML in quite a bit of detail. Is it clear enough? Have a sample docx file as well, just not sure how to attach it here.

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[dwasyl]

listsample.docx

@mwilliamson Attached is a very simple sample of continuing lists (and sub-lists). When numbering is continued it would be helpful to tag the generated list lis with a value, or at least the first element of the continued list (a style could be applied as well).

It would also be helpful to have a style defined for lists (instead of just generic ols and lis since Word lists can be numbered or lettered (a, b, c) or bulleted or even hyphenated. The more of this that can be detected and replicated the better.

[abdasik25]

Hi there, any updates on this?