"Magnus Manske" magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote in message news:fab0ecb70708060106s1852343cqcd3e63dc5c60e928@mail.gmail.com...
How about this: Currently, the parser quietly skips lines that have list markup but are otherwise blank. So: # # #three
will render as:
- three
The parser could be changed to /not/ do that at the beginning of a list, but increase an internal counter that will then render the above example correctly as: 3. three
Secondly, a recursive template could generate dummy # lines, e.g.: {{numberedliststart|5}}
It still doesn't solve the main problem of _continuing_ the numbering (rather than starting at a specific number). If you use one of these methods to continue a list, so you end up with 1,2, ....break... 3,4,5 then you get into difficulty when someone adds an item to the first part of the list. You would then get 1,2,3, ....break... 3,4,5 (unless they also remember to renumber all subsequent parts of the list, which imho is an unacceptable requirement).
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)