Hello,
I am an editor over at wikibooks and I was have found myself
wishing for a better way to number things in wikimarkup. Mainly my
activity has been focused on mathematics texts, and I wished for a way
to automatically generate numbers for theorems & exercises. Similar
to what is done in LaTeX. Basically so I could have a template that
would increment say a theorem number from something like 2.1.1 to
2.1.2. (I could imagine 2 and 1 being inputs to the template That
something like {{Theorem|2|1}} display 2.1.1, 2.1.2, ... etc.)
The particularly can be annoying in exercise sections, when I would
like to add an easy exercise at the beginning of a section with 50
exercises and I find myself manually renumbering exercises badly.
I cornered mikelifeguard in an IRC channel a while back and was asking
him if there was any hope of having the VariablesExtension added to
wikibooks so I could make these templates myself. He thought it was
highly unlikely when I mentioned it was previously marked as a
WONTFIX on english wikipedia (bugzilla:7865). Though he felt I should
mention my issue here.
This page:
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/generate.html#counters
made me hopeful something like this might be possible in HTML/CSS, but
to be honest I am not technically savvy enough to figure out if I am
correct.
Thanks for your time,
Thenub314
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