Re: Use {@x} to End a Numbered Example List, where x is identifier for this specific list

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Den ons 29 dec. 2021 20:37John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org> skrev:

> Hossam Ghorab <hossamghorab404-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:
>
> > Thanks for sharing your idea. Maybe we can post our suggestions
> somewhere
> > where core Pandoc developers can see? They don't seem very active here.
>
> Really?  I've posted here 320 times in the last year.
>
> Note that the syntax `(@foo)` is already used for regular example
> lists; `foo` identifies the specific list number, not a list
> series.
>

Hence my proposal of curly brackets. However I discovered a later fuller
version where I addressed the issue of named list items, the full syntax
being

    @{[^]<counter_name>[:<item_name>][([<counter init>[!]]["<label>"[!]])]}

where the parts in `[…]` are optional, each of `<counter_name>` and
`<item_name>` is an (ASCII) alphanumeric identifier and `<counter init>` is
a valid decimal, roman or alphabetical (starting) list item number and `!`
indicates that the counter/label should be reinitialized/set even if it has
been initialized/set before (e.g. for a per-chapter counter), and `^`
indicates that the label should have an initial capital (like in Bash
parameter expansion) so that e.g.

`(@{foo:bar(i)})`

~   Initializes the counter `foo` with lowercase Roman numerals starting
from one *unless* it has been initialized before, and sets the identifier
of this item to `bar` and no label. Renders as `(i)`

`(@{foo:bar(i!)})`

~   The same but forces the reinitialization of the counter.

`(@{foo:baz})`

~   Either a list item marker of counter `foo` with list item identifier
`baz` or a reference to the same (possibly becoming a link in formats which
allow that).

`(@{^sentence:quux(1 "mening")})`

~   Initializes the counter `sentence` to 1, with label "mening" (Swedish
for 'Sentence') and item identifier `quux`. Renders as `(Mening 1)`.

`(@{^sentence:fop})`

~   List item or reference of the above counter with item identifier `fop`.
Renders as `(Mening <n>)`, where `<n>` is the sequential number of item
`fop`.

`@{sentence:fop}`

~   Reference to the same item which renders as `mening <n>` without
capitalization of the label.



>
> >> This has come up before, and it wouldn't surprise me if there is
> already
> >> an issue for it, although I can't find one at the moment. (For all that
> I
> >> know I might even have opened such an issue myself but don't remember
> it.)
> >> I have a file with a proposal, but I don't remember if I ever posted
> it. My
> >> idea was to use curly brackets to distinguish counters from citations
> so
> >> `(@{foo})` would be the counter named `foo` and then optionally a colon
> and
> >> a number/letter which gives the numbering type and the start number as
> for
> >> regular lists so `@{foo:10}` = the counter `foo` starting at 10 with
> >> decimal numbers, `@{bar:x}` = the counter `bar` starting at 10 with
> >> lowercase roman numbers, `@{baz:J}` = the counter `baz` starting at 10
> with
> >> upper alpha numbers, with the `:N` bit being ignored except at the
> first
> >> occurrence of the counter, or maybe resetting the counter, as I imagine
> >> that one of the main usea of this feature might be to have a separate
> count
> >> for each chapter, and then resetting the same counter makes sense.
> >>
> >> Den ons 22 dec. 2021 21:17Hossam Ghorab <hossamg...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> skrev:
> >>
> >>> Dear all,
> >>>
> >>> Regarding the [continued numbered example lists](
> >>> https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#numbered-example-lists). A problem is
> >>> that we can only define a single list that gets continued along the
> >>> document. Why don't we use `(@x)` where we can simply call the
> identifier
> >>> of this list, x, whenever we want to continue it's numbering? The list
> >>> identifier may be any character not just a number. Something like:
> >>>
> >>> ``` (@1) element 1 of list 1 (@1) element 2 of list 1
> >>> --interruption---- List 2: (@2) element 1 of list 2  (@2) element 2 of
> >>> list 2  ---- interruption---- List 1 continuous: (@1) element 3 of
> list 1
> >>>    (@1) element 4 of list 1
> >>> ```
> >>> This is a primary suggestion open to all kinds of arguments. And many
> >>> thanks to [@cderv](https://github.com/cderv) who has been a great
> help
> >>> regarding Pandoc issues facing Rmarkdown users.
> >>>
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