How can ordered list have 4 level lists?

[lisazeng]

Hi Oxygen Expert,

In my task topic, I want to have below 4-level ordered list.
1.....
a......
1........
a.....
b......
2.......
b

However in the task tpic I can only add one level substeps in steps.
Steps
------step
------substep

How can I have another 2 level ordered substeps in dita?

Thanks!
Lisa

[bogdan]

Hi Lisa,

Tasks are topic specializations meant to express simple, concise instructions. Probably this is the reason why you can only use steps and substeps.
As possible solutions for your problem:
- a 4-level list seems to be very difficult to follow for any audience. Maybe you can rewrite the information so you can accommodate it in the default 2-level list structure (steps and substeps).
- convert your task to a topic. Then use a combination of ol and li elements to obtain the structure you wish. For example:

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<ol>

  <li>Step 1

    <ol>

      <li>Substep 1.1

        <ol>

          <li>Substep 1.1.1

            <ol>

              <li>Substep 1.1.1.1</li>

             </ol>

           </li>

         </ol>

       </li>

     <li>Substep 1.2</li>

    </ol>

   </li>

   <li>Step 2</li>

</ol>

Regards,
Bogdan

Bogdan Goreci
<oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com

[lisazeng]

Hi Bogdan,

Yes, this help me alot.
I tested it with topic and it works.

thanks!

Lisa

[hpyu37]

Hi Bogdan,

I tried this in my topic (concept) but it is appearing as a, b, c, .... instead of 1.1, 1.2, 1.3

See the attched doc.

[Radu]

Hi,

This forum thread is quite old (last post about 3 years ago). Maybe in such cases you can consider starting a new post.
The visual editing is styled in Oxygen using CSS, if you look in this CSS OXYGEN_INSTALLD_DIR/frameworks/dita/css/core/-topic-body-lists.css, there are CSS selectors which configure the list item counters depending on their level:

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  *[class~="topic/ol"] > *[class~="topic/li"] {
      counter-increment: item-count;
  }
  *[class~="topic/ol"] > *[class~="topic/li"]::marker {
      content: counter(item-count, decimal) ". ";
      font-weight:bold;
  }
  *[class~="topic/ol"] > *[class~="topic/li"] 
    *[class~="topic/ol"] > *[class~="topic/li"]::marker {
      content: counter(item-count, lower-alpha) ". ";
  }
  *[class~="topic/ol"] > *[class~="topic/li"] 
    *[class~="topic/ol"] > *[class~="topic/li"]  
       *[class~="topic/ol"] > *[class~="topic/li"]::marker {
      content: counter(item-count, lower-roman) ". ";
  }
  *[class~="topic/ol"] > *[class~="topic/li"] 
    *[class~="topic/ol"] > *[class~="topic/li"]  
       *[class~="topic/ol"] > *[class~="topic/li"]  
         *[class~="topic/ol"] > *[class~="topic/li"]::marker {
      content: counter(item-count, decimal) ". ";
  }

but this does not influence the published output as with XML in general there is a separation between content and publishing.
So in what published format (HTML, PDF) do you want to obtain that specific numbering?

Regards,
Radu