From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: William Beard <wcbeard10@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Trouble with ordered list start number
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 10:29:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878vsqrnm1.fsf@norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimtmWtam4FyBWhQLDwDN-_iRLcYTA@mail.gmail.com> (William Beard's message of "Sat, 25 Jun 2011 22:37:06 +0900")
William Beard <wcbeard10@gmail.com> writes:
> I see in the manual
> http://orgmode.org/manual/Plain-lists.html
> that with ordered lists, you can for example start one with the number
> 20 by starting the "text of the item with [@20]"
> I assume this means I can just have a newline that looks like this
>
> [@20] some text for this item
>
> and hit M-Return after typing the text for the item, and have a `21. '
> appear below it. But when I do, it gives me the top header (`*')
> instead.
> What am I doing wrong?
It needs to be a list.
1. [@20] some text for this item
then M-RET turns it into this
20. [@20] some text for this item
21. <point here>
--
Bernt
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2011-06-25 13:37 Trouble with ordered list start number William Beard
2011-06-25 14:29 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2011-06-26 5:45 ` William Beard
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