[l2h] Broken enumerations

[Ross Moore]

Hi Graham,

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Graham Gough wrote:

> Sorry Ross, but I'm afraid you're wrong this time (a rare event
> indeed!). The command \usecounter sets the value of the counter back
> to 0 again, so your suggestion won't work. See latex.ltx
>
>    \def\usecounter#1{\@nmbrlisttrue\def\@listctr{#1}\setcounter{#1}\z@}

Yes, in LaTeX certainly that is the result of the above code-line.

Besides, I just checked the coding in LaTeX2HTML and found that
\usecounter is only recognised within an explicit {list} environment.
It would never be seen inside {enumerate}.

>
> Mark Wooding has macros \suspend and \resume to tackle this problem in
> his mdwlists package, I was just using a naive approach but some
> mechanism is necessary to remember the value from one list to the
> next.

Indeed; this seems to be correct.

With LaTeX2HTML, more work needs to be done with the  $preitems
part of the {enumerate} environment; that is, any coding that falls
between the  \begin{enumerate}  and the first \item .

Currently there is no code for setting a 'start=<num>' attribute
to the <OL> tag.

Certainly this is an addition worth implementing.


Cheers

	Ross Moore

>
> Best wishes
>
> Graham
>