RH8 - List numbering question (basic)

Addenda... there are times I want to pull my hair out.

Looked at the html that caused my result above and found that line 1 was bounded by ol /ol tags, line 2 was bounded by ol /ol tags, and lines3-6 were bounded by ol /ol tags.

Removed those lines completely and tried again.

Typed lines 1 through 6.

Applied p-List1 to line 1, p-List2 to line 2, p-List3 to line 3, and then reversed for lines 4-6.

Result:

1. Line 1

   b. Line 2

      iii. Line 3

       iv. Line 4

   e. Line 5

6. Line 6

The html is

I was wading through Peter's info on fixing lists that have come over from older versions of RH and have decided to sort-of start from scratch.

I commented out all of the extraneous (at least I think they are) styles in my .css. For example, where I had a P.List1 and a LI.P-List1, I removed the P.List1 (and vice-versa). In other words, I left the P.* styles for paragraphs, and the LI.* styles for lists.

Now...

I have three numbered list styles: p-List1 (decimal), p-List2 (loweralpha, indent .25), p-List3 (lowerroman, indent .5).

I type in the following lines with no style assigned:

   test line 1

   test line 2

   test line 3

   test line 4

   test line 5

   test line 6

I then apply the three list styles and get:

   1. test line 1

       a. test line 2

           i. test line 3

          ii. test line 4

       c. test line 5

   4. test line 6

The html is

<ol type="1">
<li class="p-List1">this is my first line</li>
<li class="p-List2">this is my first alpha</li>
<li class="p-List3">this is my first roman</li>
<li class="p-List3">this is my second roman</li>
<li class="p-List2">this is my second alpha</li>
<li class="p-List1">this is my second line</li>
</ol>

So, I guess my questions are twofold now:

• Is there something I need to do in the style definitions themselves?
• How do I apply the styles to get the 'proper' result?

I apologize for asking what I know are basic questions, but I dropped into this in the middle and am learning my way from the inside out.