Question

We are trying to convert some Use Case documents that have been written in MS Word.

The 'steps' of the Use Case use nested numbered lists similar to the following:

• 1. Do the first thing
• 2. If we can do the next thing
  • 2.1 Do this sub thing
  • 2.2 If we're not finished yet
    • 2.2.1 Do some other thing
    • 2.2.2 And another
• 3. Back to here

etc.

Not only can't I find any way to do this in TWiki, I cannot find any way to do this with HTML lists. MS Word seems to be the only place where we can do this, and I want to migrate people away from Word.

Anybody got any bright ideas how we can achieve this simply?

Thanks in advance.

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-- DuncanKinnear - 30 Jul 2007

Answer

Hm, maybe ExplicitNumberingPlugin can help here.

-- FranzJosefGigler - 31 Jul 2007

Franz,

Thanks for that. It looks interesting. I'm guessing I can use a bulleted list and have the sequence nos just after the bullet.

What would be really nice would be a new kind of list that maybe uses the # character instead of the *. Thus you would have something like:

   #. First Item
   #. Second Item
      #. Sub-item 1 of second item      
      #. Sub-item 2 of second item
      #. Sub-item 3 of second item
etc.

In my spare time (!?!), I might try and implement something like this.

-- DuncanKinnear - 31 Jul 2007

Marking as answered.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 01 Aug 2007

If you have installed the Plugin, the following code already works, although it's not as clean as hoped:

   ##. First Item
   ##. Second Item
      %BR%##.. Sub-item 1 of second item      
      %BR%##.. Sub-item 2 of second item
      %BR%##.. Sub-item 3 of second item
   ##. Third Item

Obviously there's a slight bug with the list continuation at deeper levels. Guess, we should report it to get rid of the %BR% tags.

-- FranzJosefGigler - 01 Aug 2007

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