List Preamble Arguments

[Daniel]

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?

Daniel