I think this could be done by manipulating the order in which
numbered lists are handled relative to template expansion. In which
case, you'd use
# first item
#:{{:arbitrarily long extra stuff}}
# second item
This may be a bad idea, since it would change current behavior. i.e.
if I transclude a page that is a numbered list, it continues the
surrounding list and renumbers items below it. But I'm wondering if
that is the desired/expected behavior, and if people actually use it.
Jim
On Aug 3, 2007, at 6:42 PM, Paul grinberg wrote:
My thought on
this was that it should optionally use similar
syntax to
tables, like so:
{#
# Item one
Can be arbitrarily long
<pre>Lots of weird stuff in here</pre>
# Only now do we get to item two, in the same list
# Etc.
#}
I was hoping to keep the syntax as close to the standard wiki
numbered list as
possible. I was thinking about something like
# Item one
# Item two
<pre>block of data</pre>
#{} Restart numbering from last list, so Item 3
{|
|}
#{4} Start numbering at 4, so Item 4
I realize that there are lots of preferences either way ...
Brion has, I believe, vetoed all of the
suggestions made here, when
they have been made before at various points. The correct solution
for now is to just use HTML lists:
Unfortunately, I am new to this list, so I don't know the history
of this
discussion. Can you please point me at the previous discussion or
maybe
summarize the key point here? As part of my experience using and
maintaining
the wiki at my work, I see this as probably the weakest link in the
wiki. I'd
like to understand the reasoning behind the decisions made thus far.
Thanks,
gri6507.
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