Well, I'm not sure what might be intended by an
author in the situation you describe. What do you think should
happen?
The main problem that I saw was that
continuation from a list at a different level was producing incorrect
numbering, in that the count was taken from one list level and the format from
another.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
----- Original Message -----
From:
Howard
Perrin
To: Bob Stayton
Cc:
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 4:46 AM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] OrderedList
and 'continuation' attribute
Bob,
Thanks very much for your help. That seems to fix the problem - I've
raised a bug on sourceforge as requested (https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3314663&group_id=21935&atid=373747).
I've noticed though with your fix that if 'continuation=continues' is
used on a nested ordered list, and there is not another ordered list at the
same level as the current one, but there is a nested list at the same level in
a previous ordered list, then the numbering from that is picked up. This, to
my mind, is not really desired behaviour - what do you think? (I hope that
makes sense, if not I'll send through an example!)
Howard
On 9 June 2011 16:55, Bob Stayton <> wrote:
Hi Howard,
I think that is a bug, since the results are
simply wrong. The numbering should continue from the same list nesting
level, in my opinion. Could you please file a bug report on the
DocBook SourceForge site for this?
To fix it, take a look at the template named
'output-orderedlist-starting-number' in common/common.xsl. In there
you will see in the "otherwise" case that:
<xsl:variable name="prevlist"
select="$list/preceding::orderedlist[1]"/>
This selects the previous list regardless of
level, which in your instance is the nested list. I think this
selection should be of the preceding list with the same number of
orderedlist ancestors, something like this [untested]:
<xsl:variable name="prevlist"
select="$list/preceding::orderedlist[count($list/ancestor::orderedlist) =
count(ancestor::orderedlist)][1]"/>
If DocBook 5, don't forget to add the namespace
prefix.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
----- Original Message -----
From: Howard Perrin
To:
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 1:50
AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] OrderedList
and 'continuation' attribute
Hi,
I'm having a problem with the 'continuation' attribute on
<orderedlist> elements. When I set it to 'continues' and the list
follows a nested list, the numbering is started from
the nested list rather than the outer list. For example, if I
have:
<orderedlist>
<listitem><para>First
Item</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Second
Item</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Third Item</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem><para>Nested First
Item</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Nested Second
Item</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Nested Third Item</para>
<listitem><para>Nested Fourth
Item</para>
<listitem><para>Nested Fifth Item</para>
</orderedlist>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
<orderedlist continuation='continues'>
<listitem><para>Fourth Item</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fifth
Item</para></listitem>
</orderedlist>
When transformed using the docbook XSL via FO to PDF the output looks
like:
1. First Item
2. Second Item
3. Third Item
a. Nested First Item
b. Nested Second Item
c. Nested Third Item
d. Nested
Fourth Item
e. Nested Fifth Item
6. Fourth Item
7. Fifth Item
Maybe this is intended behaviour - but I want to have 6 & 7
actually numbered 4 & 5 so that they continue the numbering from the
list at the same level. Does anyone know if/how I can add something to my
customisation layer to change the behaviour here?
Thanks!
Howard
