From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>,
Nathaniel Flath <flat0103@gmail.com>
Cc: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>,
Jacob Mitchell <jacob.d.mitchell@gmail.com>,
org-mode List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] Alphabetical ordered lists
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 09:40:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <535BC60F-1310-47AD-BCD1-1C88822B852A@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874od127wq.wl%n.goaziou@gmail.com>
On Oct 4, 2010, at 7:18 PM, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
>>>>>> Carsten Dominik writes:
>
>> I think it would be appropriate in this case to simply throw an
>> error and let the user clean up with undo.
>
> Certainly, but this still means that any 27+ items list will never be
> able to complete a full bullet cycle as the user will have to undo
> each time alphabetical bullets are reached. It could perhaps start
> again at letter 'a'...
Ok, we could force the list to become numbered when someone tries to
cycle it into
a,b,... THis does not mean that you'd have to count in advance, you
could simply
try the renumbering and when stepping over z throw an exception that
will force the
list to move to the next state which would be numbers.
>
>> Nicolas, would you *object* against a patch by Nathaniel that
>> implements this? You are Mr lists now, so your green light will be
>> needed.
>
> I wouldn't object against it as some people are finding it useful and
> as it won't be turned on by default (if I remember correctly).
Yes, we sould not turn it on by default because it might bahave strange
under some circumstances.
>
> But I can't help thinking this could lead to unexpected results in
> some cases (admittedly less than when alpha bullets could be any size
> long).
It definitely will.
Here is an alternative idea. Nathaniel, what do you
think about this: We could keep the numbering as we
have it in the Org file, but introduce something like [@a]
in the first item that will convert the numbering
into a,b,... upon export to ASCII, HTML, maybe even LaTeX
(even though I think LaTeX demands some consistency here
and prefers to have the global setup decide how lists work).
Hell, we could even use [@A] for capitals and [@i] and [@I]
for roman numbering :)
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-05 8:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-29 20:27 [PATCH] Alphabetical ordered lists Nathaniel Flath
2010-07-29 21:07 ` Nick Dokos
2010-08-01 18:33 ` David Maus
2010-08-02 9:31 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-08-27 8:11 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-08-27 10:53 ` Bernt Hansen
2010-08-27 12:44 ` Jacob Mitchell
2010-08-27 13:01 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-09-18 7:43 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-09-21 12:48 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-09-21 16:46 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-09-26 17:36 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-09-26 22:16 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-09-27 6:55 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-09-28 16:12 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-09-29 15:49 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-09-29 16:50 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-09-29 17:46 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-10-01 1:13 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-10-04 8:33 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-04 17:18 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-10-05 0:07 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-10-05 0:21 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-10-05 7:40 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-10-21 4:44 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-10-22 5:30 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-10-22 8:13 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-23 1:04 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-10-26 8:21 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-10-26 8:23 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-28 7:17 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-11-11 7:16 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-11-11 8:57 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-11-13 15:16 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-11-22 4:45 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-11-22 13:37 ` Bernt Hansen
2010-11-22 18:37 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-11-27 4:39 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-12-11 2:41 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-12-20 18:25 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-01-12 20:05 ` Nathaniel Flath
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