Re: DOCBOOK: What are the semantics of list number continuation?

Norman Walsh wrote:
> 
> / "Peter B. West" <> was heard to say:
> | Does the "not an ancestor" mean that I can't do this:
> 
> Depends what you want. Are you suggesting that this should produce:
> 
> |
> | <orderedlist id="list1">
> 1|   <listitem>...</listitem>
> 2|   <listitem>...</listitem>
> 3|   <listitem>...</listitem>
> 4|   <listitem>...</listitem>
> 5|   <listitem>
> |     <para>
> |       Some comments
> |       <orderedlist id="list2" continuation="continues">
> 6|         <listitem>...</listitem>
> 7|         <listitem>...</listitem>
> |       </orderedlist>
> |     </para>
> |   </listitem>
> 6|   <listitem>...</listitem>
> | </orderedlist>
> 
> That would seem, um, odd.

As I said, I'm not familiar with this stuff, but I can imagine that an
author might want to offset some of the elements of a list with
appropriate comments, without disturbing the overall order.

Peter
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