trouble with listnumers

[ilnurgi]

document = Document()
document.add_paragraph('start')
for i in 'text':
    document.add_paragraph(i, style='ListNumber')
document.add_paragraph('continue')
for i in 'text':
    document.add_paragraph(i, style='ListNumber')
document.add_paragraph('end')
document.save('demo.docx')

this is generated to

start

1. t
2. e
3. x
4. t
   continue
5. t
6. e
7. x
8. t
   end

why second list started 5, i need 1

thanks

[scanny]

Hi @ilnurgi, the business of restarting numbering for a numbered list in Word turns out to be quite complex. There's already an open feature request for it here: #25. Also see this response to a similar question on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23446268/python-docx-how-to-restart-list-lettering/23464442#23464442.

You can add to the feature request if you like. I'll close this one as a duplicate.

If you're interested in working on it let me know. There are several dependencies though, namely access to styles and numbering definitions, that aren't in place yet. So it would be a bigger job than just the numbering restart itself.