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Re: What are the semantics of list number continuation?
Norman Walsh wrote:
>
> / "Peter B. West" <pbwest@netscape.net> was heard to say:
> | Does the "not an ancestor" mean that I can't do this:
>
> Depends what you want. Are you suggesting that this should produce:
>
> |
> | <orderedlist id="list1">
> 1| <listitem>...</listitem>
> 2| <listitem>...</listitem>
> 3| <listitem>...</listitem>
> 4| <listitem>...</listitem>
> 5| <listitem>
> | <para>
> | Some comments
> | <orderedlist id="list2" continuation="continues">
> 6| <listitem>...</listitem>
> 7| <listitem>...</listitem>
> | </orderedlist>
> | </para>
> | </listitem>
> 6| <listitem>...</listitem>
> | </orderedlist>
>
> That would seem, um, odd.
As I said, I'm not familiar with this stuff, but I can imagine that an
author might want to offset some of the elements of a list with
appropriate comments, without disturbing the overall order.
Peter
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