Hi @miles-1 ,
while @maucejo solution is very good and suitable for most cases, I want to point out that this is actually possible to configure with a simple show rule if you want to keep using the enum syntax and don’t care for nested enumerations.
#let item-counter = counter("item-counter")
#set enum(start: 0)
#show enum: it => {
if it.start != 0 { return it }
let args = it.fields()
let items = args.remove("children")
context enum(..args, start: item-counter.get().first() + 1, ..items)
item-counter.update(i => i + it.children.len())
}
What this does is to create a counter that keeps track of the number of already processed items and set the start parameter of the enumeration according to that counter. The line #set enum(start: 0) is a trick to prevent the show rule being called recursively.
Now this:
+ Item
+ Item
Some text in between
+ Item
+ Item
Some more text in between
+ Item
+ Item
will produce the following output:
