From: Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@talktalk.net>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Auto-creating a numbered list from pasted section?
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 07:07:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <22fb8acf-7bfe-44a4-a9fd-011bf24bba05@email.android.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vbxsh5j9.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>
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Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@talktalk.net> writes:
>
>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>>
>> Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>> Hi Sharon,
>>
>> Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@talktalk.net> writes:
>>
>> In an org-mode document I can <h which when TABBED gives
>me
>> #+BEGIN_HTML
>>
>> #+END_HTML
>>
>> In the same document I have a list of numbered items,
>actually academic
>> references, is it possible using something like <r to
>have each and
>> every one done as part of a numbered list please? It
>would be so much
>> simpler than going through numbering each and every one
>by hand!
>> I'm not sure what you mean by
>>
>> "done as part of a numbered list"
>>
>> As for re-numbering items from a numbered list, moving
>one item up and
>> down will renumber
>> the whole list automagically.
>>
>> Please give more details if this does not reply your
>question.
>>
>> Also not sure what you mean, but maybe mark all the things
>you want to
>> be list items, and then use "C-c -" to actually make them
>list items?
>> Hit that again a few times to cycle through
>ordered/unordered, etc.
>>
>> That's my guess.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for this, you'll have to bear with me as I have no
>> Internet access atm due to a fault on the line.
>>
>> This is referring to a academic reference list on a medical
>> journal reference list, where the articles are referenced in the
>> body of the article and then all listed at the end in numbered
>> order as they appear in the article.
>>
>> What I'm after is some way of auto-numbering a highlighted number
>> of references so that I don't have to number them all by hand.
>
>That still sounds to me like you're creating a numbered list from what
>is currently just a series of lines and paragraphs. Or else you're
>trying to do what org footnotes do: automatically link the numbering
>between the in-text references, and the article list at the end. Maybe
>try footnotes?
>
>If this isn't right, maybe show us a simple example of the text you've
>got, and what you're hoping to do.
>
>Eric
I'm attaching 'paste.org' which shows 2 lines of a reference list of 42 items, which I've had to number by hand. What I'm looking for is highlighting the list, press several keys and the list is auto-numbered.
Can it be done please?
Thanks
Sharon.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-11 7:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-08 13:30 Auto-creating a numbered list from pasted section? Sharon Kimble
2014-01-08 16:35 ` Bastien
2014-01-09 3:52 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-01-09 20:16 ` Sharon Kimble
2014-01-10 3:36 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-01-11 7:07 ` Sharon Kimble [this message]
2014-01-11 9:15 ` Bastien
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