Rich Text Conversion for Numbered Lists

dnmel0 - Tue Jan 24 18:48:57 EST 2012
Hi,

Paul, I tried disabling both auto correct options in Word but it still exported bulleted lists. I saw in one of the RPE forums that it's because DOORS passes the information as bulleted lists to both RPE and WEXP so I need to convert it before the export which is why I'm hoping there is a DXL column that I can create to use in the export.

Louie, unfortunately the numbered lists are included with other text and not on it's own. In word the lists are in normal paragraphs and also in tables (not sure if this makes a difference, but thought I should advise).

Also there are multiple styles of numbered lists in the export (e.g. roman numerals (i.) and small case letters (a.))

I've tried macros in word to convert bulleted lists to numbered lists but firstly i couldn't get it to work and even if i did get the macro to work it wouldn't work with the multiple styles of numbered lists. Again this is why I'm hoping I can display it using DXL then export it not as a numbered list but as plain text pretending to be a numbered list.

Thanks,
Dan

SystemAdmin - Tue Jan 24 20:01:35 EST 2012
dnmel0 wrote: "....then export it not as a numbered list but as plain text pretending to be a numbered list..."

This requires rebuilding the current RTF control words to extract all of those \pn... RTF ctrl words that define the layout of the list.

I recreated your list manually as plain text in an object and then captured the resulting RTF which looks like the following.

{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang3081{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Tahoma;}}
\viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs20 a.\tab abc\par
b.\tab def\par
c.\tab ghi\par
d.\tab jkl\par
e.\tab mno\par

So DXL would be required to somehow rebuild the RTF code to convert a defined bullet list into a plain text equivalent.

Try using the DXL function plainText(string s) to see if this can replicate a plain text version of the numbered list.

SystemAdmin - Tue Jan 24 22:58:58 EST 2012
Found some time to have a crack at my own suggestion above. Unfortunately, the DXL plainText() function strips out the numbered prefixes a, b, c, d... ---- this kind of makes sense as these prefixes are wrapped up in the \pntext rtf control word which tools like MSWord use to isolate the prefixes and renumber them when a new list item is inserted, as such, the prefixes would not be viewed as being plain text and are stripped out.

I had a a go at creating a DXL Layout column to mimic a copy of the Main Column in the hope that it would interpret and export the contents of the DXL layout as WYSIWYG plain text, but a trial of exporting to MSWord shows this is not the case.

Not so easy to do it would seem.