New Listing Extensions

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Standard Indented Lists

unordered list:

ordered list

  1. first item in list
  2. second item in list
    1. first item in list
    2. second item in list
      1. only item in third list
        1. next to last item
        2. last item

Lists With Extensions

Bullets and list item markers

This stuff seems to be a little unreliable. The progression in UL should be disc-circle-square, starting over again with each new level of discs. Instead, the cycle seems to be anchored by the very first list element.

Ordered lists have no analagous progression of symbols, and the extension behaves as expected. A TYPE flag will hold for each element at an indententation level. Each new indentation level uses the default 1, 2, 3... unless TYPED otherwise.

Another problem is the distinction between circles and discs in unordered lists. Netscape 1.1N seems to not distinguish between TYPEd circles and discs, although it does distinguish between them if using UL and LI tags without extentions.

unordered list:

ordered list:

  1. first item in list
  2. second item in list (LI TYPE=i)
    1. first item in second list (LI TYPE=A)
    2. second item in second list
      1. third list starts with 5 (OL START=5)
      2. second element of third list, 6 (LI TYPE=i)
      3. third element of third list, 7 (LI TYPE=A)
        1. next to last item
        2. last item (LI TYPE=I)
an example of both UL and OL nested:

  1. rasberries (OL TYPE=A)
  2. blueberries
  3. gooseberries
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Last updated 20 june 95 by katie