Josiah Schwab writes: >> On 6 jun. 2013, at 10:20, Michael Bach gmail.com> wrote: >>> The LaTeX exporter does not honor the setting of org-list-allow-alphabetical. > > A week or so ago I asked a similar question about the HTML export and lists. > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2013-05/msg01324.html > So I just wanted to toss in my 2¢. > > On Jun 6, 2013, at 2:17 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote: >> Conventions about the type of bullet to be used in a document belong >> to the typesetting side, and I rather establish a global setting for >> a document than follow my momentary decisions when I write the >> Org-mode version of it. On a similar vein, we do have lists >> starting with - and * and +, but we still let LaTeX and HTML choose >> what to use as a bullet. To me this feels like the right behavior. > > I think this argument makes sense; and to be honest, that's probably > how I want the exporter to behave most of the time. > > However, there is particular use case where I find this frustrating, > which is writing problem sets. There I like to reference other parts > of the problems by name. For example, > > a) Do something. > b) Use your answer in part a) to do something else. > > Then, if I want to export it to multiple formats (say, html and pdf), > there is no general way to tell orgmode: "my alphabetical bullet > choice was meaningful, please try to preserve it". One ends up > inserting little workarounds for each export format. Which is not a > big deal, but when everything else works so seamlessly it's these > little things that stand out :) > I don't have anything to add to what others have said on the cross-reference question. But I did some investigation into alpha lists and I wanted to expand a bit on that. I looked at your earlier question and the latex question a bit and I have a patch that implements something like what you want. However, I'm not advocating that org actually implement this. In fact, there are good reasons *not* to implement it (at least not in this form). In the patch, there is a change in the parser so that it recognizes an ordered-alpha list (in addition to the ordered, etc. lists it was already recognizing). Then there are minor changes to ox-html.el: basically ordered and ordered-alpha trigger the same response from the exporter, except in one case: the opening of an ordered-alpha list includes the ``type="a"'' thing. NB: the patch does not address any of the other exporters. However, the type="a" thingie in

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