Pandoc: Request: Nested Numbered Lists

[phren0logy]

Thanks for an amazing tool! I use it extensively for academic writing. As such, I have a humble request. I looked at the docs and mailing list first; sorry if this has already been addressed. I'd love to see a list like:

(@) Heading
(@.@) Subheading
(@) Another Heading
(@.@) Another Subheading

Render as:

1. Heading
   1.1 Subheading
2. Heading
   2.1 Another Subheading

I don't think this would break anything, but perhaps there is another unintended consequence? Thanks for considering it.

[chrismerck]

Sorry to bump an old post, but I would also love to have this feature as well.

I have not found a reasonable replacement in pandoc markdown.

[mpickering]

What are the shortcomings of fancy lists?

[chrismerck]

The documentation does not cover how to form nested numbered lists with a #.#. format, as in the original issue. Here is an example of what I'm after (although indentation and more decimal points are often used too):

[mpickering]

I think this is an issue with styling the output. What format are you
outputting to?

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Chris Merck [email protected]
wrote:

The documentation does not cover how to form nested numbered lists with a

.#. format, as in the original issue. Here is an example of what I'm after

(although indentation and more decimal points are often used too):
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[chrismerck]

Currently I'm outputting to Docx and PDF.

On Aug 27, 2014, at 12:33, mpickering [email protected] wrote:

I think this is an issue with styling the output. What format are you
outputting to?

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Chris Merck [email protected]
wrote:

The documentation does not cover how to form nested numbered lists with a

.#. format, as in the original issue. Here is an example of what I'm after

(although indentation and more decimal points are often used too):
[image: image]
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/628921/4060673/c345259a-2df1-11e4-9284-cd8e654cdde3.png

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[ousia]

What are the shortcomings of fancy lists?

@mpickering, i think there are at least two shortcomings:

1. You cannot have more than a fancy list series in a document. In some cases, this is a very serious shortcoming.
2. You cannot have a fancy list with other than numbers (no roman numerals, no alphabetic lists or other features available in standard lists).

[buggymcbugfix]

Would like to see this as well.

[mb21]

If you're outputting to HTML you can use a nested list and style it with CSS.

1. foo
    1. bar
2. baz

If you're targeting PDF you can probably modify your template.

AFAIK only nested example lists are currently not possible in pandoc, or am I missing something?

[buggymcbugfix]

@mb21 What I'm after is this:

1. foo
    1.1 bar
    1.2 quux
2. baz

I don't know of a way of doing this in CSS.

[mb21]

@vimuel MDN has a good write-up: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Lists_and_Counters/Using_CSS_counters#Nesting_counters

[buggymcbugfix]

@mb21 Nice one. Thanks for that.

[mengwong]

Not reopening this issue, just adding to the body of knowledge about this particular challenge: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSX5opye0KWQ687nLhYKW1VTs2DljUUl5fra4kicNK7ygj-_Qyc3lhuEQh3g94Z4mM7EKQLPPpa3L3Q/pub