How to show parent list item number in child label?

[edmondop]

Hello,
we wanted to have our lists in this format:

1.
     1.1
           1.1.1
2.

We haven't found a way to do it, the solution would be somehow to override this method here, but we haven't found a way to swap the default https://github.com/brechtm/rinohtype/blob/master/src/rinoh/structure.py#L176 LabelItemStyle with a custom class

[brechtm]

This type of numbering was already supported for headings and paragraphs. I have added this for lists as well in e0672f2.

Install the development version of rinohtype:

pip install https://github.com/brechtm/rinohtype/archive/refs/heads/master.zip

And override the enumerated list item label style definition in your style sheet:

[enumerated list item label]
number_separator = '.'

Please let me know if that works for you.

[edmondop]

Thank you, it worked like a charm. Is there a way to have that kind of extensibility that would have allowed us to do it without your help?

[brechtm]

That really depends on exactly what you want to achieve. It's impossible to describe what this encompasses exactly, but most styling should be possibly by means of a custom style sheet, template configuration and document template. reStructuredText offers ways of setting a class for document elements, which can be used in styling. This is not properly documented yet, but you see an example here: Page Break after every section.

For more specialized styling, you can define custom reStructuredText roles and directives. You can find some more information on this here:

• StackOverflow: inline code background color
• Is there any way to register a custom sphinx directive with rinoh?  #201 (and linked issues)

In summary: there are quite some options, but the lack of documentation makes it more difficult than it should be.