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

[Hossam Ghorab <hossamghorab404-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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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.

On Thursday, December 23, 2021 at 12:14:12 PM UTC+2 BP wrote:

> 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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