Dear Hussein, Thanks for the answer.
I agree with " I'm not sure a lot of authors need this low-level feature." , but the number of users is in my opinion not relevant, it is the functionality that counts. I'll checkout the mailing lists , in the mean time I also found https://github.com/docbook/docbook/ and maybe an issue here will be sufficient (also seen the reaction to the unrelated: https://github.com/docbook/docbook/issues/219) Best Regards, Albert On Sat, Oct 2, 2021 at 10:10 AM Hussein Shafie <huss...@xmlmind.com> wrote: > On 10/1/21 17:46, Albert wrote: > > > > Thank you for your answer, the options startingnumber (equivalent to the > > HTML attribute start of the ol tag) and numeration ( equivalent to the > > HTML attribute type of the ol tag) are known to me (as reference: > > https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_ol.asp > > <https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_ol.asp>) and have already been > > implemented. > > OK. > > > > > We are talking here about the value attribute of the li tag (as > > reference: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_li.asp > > <https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_li.asp>) in this way it is possible > > to set inside a list (probably quite uncommon) the value of the current > > item (and consequently the start for the next set of items. > > I'm not sure a lot of authors need this low-level feature. HTML > li/@value just looks like a low-level variant of DocBook > orderedlist/@startingnumber. I mean, IMHO, DocBook > orderedlist/@startingnumber is a fine solution for the vast majority of > needs (and orderedlist/@continuation="continues", an even better solution). > > > > > It would be nice that this would be in the xmlmind docbook editor but > > this requires probably that it should be in the docbook specifications > > first. > > That's right. > > > > > Are there plans for this (to your knowledge) > > No, not to my knowledge. > > > > > or where should this be requested? > > > I'm sorry but I don't know. May be mailing list > docb...@lists.oasis-open.org or docbook-a...@lists.oasis-open.org ? See > https://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php >
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