We use Pandoc as a backend for a Braille word processor. to support file types that we don't currently support.   We have most of the filter working for our file type but the lists are not working right   I can't seem to get the nested lists to come out right.  I am trying to get the attributes of a list in a LUA filter to give me the same information I can see when I output to JSON.  Currently I am using an ugly list like this to test with:

Broken list

 

1. Item 1

2.  Item 2

3.  Item 3

1.  item 7

2.  Item 8

a. Item a

b. Item b

                     i.   Item i

                   ii.   Item ii

1. Item I

2. Item ii

3. Item 9

4. Item 10

When I run it in the native json I get :

,Header 3 ("broken-list",[],[]) [Str "Broken",Space,Str "list"]
,OrderedList (1,Decimal,Period)
 [[Para [Str "Item",Space,Str "1"]]
 ,[Para [Str "Item",Space,Str "2"]]
 ,[Para [Str "Item",Space,Str "3"]]]
,OrderedList (7,Decimal,Period)
 [[Para [Str "item",Space,Str "7"]]
 ,[Para [Str "Item",Space,Str "8"]
  ,OrderedList (1,LowerAlpha,DefaultDelim)
   [[Para [Str "Item",Space,Str "a"]]
   ,[Para [Str "Item",Space,Str "b"]
    ,OrderedList (1,LowerRoman,DefaultDelim)
     [[Para [Str "Item",Space,Str "i"]]
     ,[Para [Str "Item",Space,Str "ii"]
      ,OrderedList (1,Decimal,DefaultDelim)
       [[Para [Str "Item",Space,Str "I"]]
       ,[Para [Str "Item",Space,Str "ii"]]]]]]]]
 ,[Para [Str "Item",Space,Str "9"]]
 ,[Para [Str "Item",Space,Str "10"]]]]

I am trying to parse this with LUA with the function:

function OrderedList(items)
  local newItems = {}
  local listItems = ''
  local itemCtr = 1
  beginTag  = '<CONTAINER bb:type="LIST" bb:listType="NORMAL" bb:listLevel="0">'
   endTag    = '</CONTAINER>'
  for _, item in pairs(items) do
    if nil ~= item and string.len(item) > 0 then
      item = removeTags(item)
      -- listItems = listItems .. '<BLOCK bb:type="LIST_ITEM" bb:itemLevel="0">'.. itemCtr .. '. ' .. item .. '</BLOCK>'
      print ('fuck' .. itemCtr .. '. ' .. item)
      table.insert(newItems,'<BLOCK bb:type="LIST_ITEM" bb:itemLevel="0">'.. itemCtr .. '. ' .. item .. '</BLOCK>')
      itemCtr = itemCtr + 1
    end
  end
  newItems.bullet = true
  return BulletList(newItems)
end

I know I can adjust the above LUA if I cna just figure out how to get the start value, and the style out of the native into the LUA.  Can someone tell me the line of code I need to ge the attributes.  I have tried things like:

items.attributes

items.listAttributes

I even checked the item before I output the json and saw that tthe attributes are on the main list.  I can't seem to get the LUA function to see the things like starting value and I don't know what I have to do so that I can parse the levels correctly.  All help is welcome.  Heck if someone has something that can take the above docx list and output it as a text list that is all I need.  I can wrap that in our tags.    I  have been looking for any examples of LUA filters that make multi  level broken lists into anything and I can not find an example.  

Thanks for any help.