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List:       lyx-users
Subject:    Re: Consecutive numeration of lists also after a section in standard-format
From:       Vincent van Ravesteijn <V.F.vanRavesteijn () tudelft ! nl>
Date:       2009-05-27 22:02:25
Message-ID: 4A1DB871.5050609 () tudelft ! nl
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Bruce Pourciau schreef:
>
> On May 27, 2009, at 3:49 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:
>
>> On 2009-05-27, Steve Litt wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 18 March 2009 01:04:27 pm jezZiFeR wrote:
>>
>>>> I do have a list with six sentences. They start with
>>
>>>> 1.)
>>>> 2.)
>>>> 3.)
>>>> 4.)
>>
>>>> Then I entered a description for this forth sentence, and after that I
>>>> would like to continue with:
>>
>>>> 5.)
>>>> 6.)
>>
>>>> But the problem is, that when I choose "numeration" in the menu, the
>>>> numeration again starts with "1". How could I change that behaviour?
>>
>>> I don't remember what you call it, but LyX has buttons to nest
>>> paragraphs.  Nest the descriptive paragraph inside sentence #4, and I
>>> believe it should do exactly what you want. Not only that, it's very
>>> representative of what you're doing, because the descriptive paragraph
>>> is ABOUT sentence 4. Styles based authoring at its best.
>>
>> For the record: if you really want to continue an enumeration after a
>> "top-level" interuption, you can use the "enumitem" module. (Search for
>> enumitem at http://wiki.lyx.org)
>>
>> Günter
>>
>
> This particular request -- to have an enumeration resume after an 
> interruption, and often an interruption at the "top-level" -- appears 
> on the list quite frequently. Among the developers, has any thought 
> been given to making this a menu option (called Resume Enumeration, 
> say) in a future version of LyX?
>
> Bruce
Yes, I implemented that once, and then someone (guess who ;-)) came up 
with a module that could do it. However, both solutions have their yet 
unsolved problems, so until now, neither of the two has made it in.

Maybe, Gunter and I should have another chat about this.

Vincent
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