List Preamble Arguments

[Daniel]

On 2020-10-26 15:09, Daniel wrote:
> On 2020-10-26 12:30, Daniel wrote:
>> On 2020-10-13 23:52, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>>> On 10/13/20 5:15 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>>>> Hi, all (but especially Jürgen),
>>>>
>>>> There have been two cases recently where people have asked about using
>>>> the new counter insets to set the value of e.g., the enumi counter. The
>>>> problem here is the old 'list preamble' one that is solved by the new
>>>> 'list preamble' arguments. However, because those have PassThru set, 
>>>> you
>>>> can't actually insert the counter inset, and I think that's usually 
>>>> true
>>>> with PassThru, right? Should we disable PassThru here (people can use
>>>> ERT if that's what they want)? Or are there special cases where insets
>>>> should be allowed with PassThru?
>>>
>>> Never mind. That doesn't work properly anyway. We need some other way to
>>> deal with enumi etc.
>>
>> I have a patch for (re)setting/resuming counters, including numbered 
>> lists:
>>
>> https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/12010.
>>
>> I like it because it's very similar to what one has in other word
>> processors.
>>
>> The final obstacle is that I don't see no easy way to add an argument to
>> the list preamble (in this case "resume*").
>>
>> There is the list preamble inset
>> (https://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/b124adbd3837/lyxgit). However, if I
>> see it correctly, there is no interface currently to add arguments to
>> the list preamble directly (via code not via inset). Does anyone know
>> whether that is correct? If so, does anyone have an idea on how to
>> implement what is need? Maybe I can have a look at some other feature
>> and learn from that?
>>
>> Any comments much appreciated!
> 
> Maybe ParagraphParameters.cpp's labelwidthstring could work?

Sorry, please disregard my previous comments. I got too excited. :)

I should stick to the tracker.

Best,
Daniel