Ordered Indent Lists starting after 1, being reset

[caspersf]

I have set my initial editor value with an ordered indent list starting from 8, as shown below:

The corresponding Plate value is :

[{ align : "left", children : [{…}] color : "" indent : 1 lineHeight : 1 listStart : 8 listStyleType : "decimal" type : "div" }]

However, when I try to edit this, Plate starts the indent from 1, instead of 8. On further investigation I noticed that normalizeFirstIndentListStart function removes listStart property on the first element, if it already exists. Any reason for this functionality, and how can I override this?

cc: @felixfeng33 @12joan @zbeyens

[12joan]

If you have a list "1. ... 2. ... 3. ..." and delete the first list item, you'd expect the subsequent list items to be decremented. Disabling this behaviour would prevent that from happening.

I suggest that you add a new property to your list item element to indicate that this list item's listStart should not be normalized. If you want to avoid duplicating parts of the indent-list package into your app, the simplest way of doing this would be to make a PR.

[caspersf]

I suggest that you add a new property to your list item element to indicate that this list item's listStart should not be normalized.

How would I go about doing this @12joan ?

[12joan]

Properties are simple JS properties on element objects. If you're hardcoding your initial value, just add it alongside listStart. If you want to add it to an existing list item programatically, use the setNodes transform. You would then need to modify the normalizer code to not call normalizeIndentListStart if the property is present.