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

[John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

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.


>> 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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