[Orgmode] Re: Renumber HTML ordered lists from org-mode?

[Baoqiu Cui]

Hi Carsten,

Attached please find the patch to support this new feature in the
DocBook exporter:

diff --git a/lisp/org-docbook.el b/lisp/org-docbook.el
index bb8d048..d7ea4b7 100644
--- a/lisp/org-docbook.el
+++ b/lisp/org-docbook.el
@@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ publishing directory."
         table-buffer table-orig-buffer
         ind item-type starter didclose
         rpl path attr caption label desc descp desc1 desc2 link
-        fnc item-tag
+        fnc item-tag initial-number
         footref-seen footnote-list
         id-file
         )
@@ -998,7 +998,11 @@ publishing directory."
                    starter (if (match-beginning 2)
                                (substring (match-string 2 line) 0 -1))
                    line (substring line (match-beginning 5))
-                   item-tag nil)
+                   item-tag nil
+                   initial-number nil)
+             (if (string-match "address@hidden:\\([0-9]+\\)\\][ \t]?" line)
+                 (setq initial-number (match-string 1 line)
+                       line (replace-match "" t t line)))
              (if (and starter (string-match "\\(.*?\\) ::[ \t]*" line))
                  (setq item-type "d"
                        item-tag (match-string 1 line)
@@ -1031,7 +1035,18 @@ publishing directory."
                (org-export-docbook-close-para-maybe)
                (insert (cond
                         ((equal item-type "u") "<itemizedlist>\n<listitem>\n")
-                        ((equal item-type "o") "<orderedlist>\n<listitem>\n")
+                        ((equal item-type "o")
+                         ;; Check for a specific start number.  If it
+                         ;; is specified, we use the ``override''
+                         ;; attribute of element <listitem> to pass the
+                         ;; info to DocBook.  We could also use the
+                         ;; ``startingnumber'' attribute of element
+                         ;; <orderedlist>, but the former works on both
+                         ;; DocBook 5.0 and prior versions.
+                         (if initial-number
+                             (format "<orderedlist>\n<listitem 
override=\"%s\">\n"
+                                     initial-number)
+                           "<orderedlist>\n<listitem>\n"))
                         ((equal item-type "d")
                          (format 
"<variablelist>\n<varlistentry><term>%s</term><listitem>\n" item-tag))))
                ;; For DocBook, we need to open a para right after tag


Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:

> On Feb 11, 2010, at 12:14 AM, Uriel Avalos wrote:
>
>> In HTML, one way of renumbering OL lists is to use "start". (Ex: <ol
>> start=13>...</ol> restarts the numbering at 13.)
>>
>> Is there anyway to do that from within org-mode without hacking the
>> exported HTML file?
>>
>> Is there a +ATTR_HTML:  planned for OL and UL lists?
>
> This has taken a long time.  I have not done an ATTR_, but you
> can now write
>
>    1. address@hidden:20] item number 20
>
> to have a list start at 20.
>
> Currently this works in Org-mode itself to change the list with
> a different counter, and for the HTML, LaTeX, and ASCII
> exporters.  I hope that it can also be translated for the docbook
> exporter.

Thanks,

-- 
Baoqiu