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Subject: Re: Capture and use export header numbering?
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To: Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com>
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Hello Lawrence,

Lawrence Bottorff writes:

> When an outline tree of headers
>
> * top 1
> ** something
> ** something
> ** something
> *** something
> **** something
> ***** something
> ****** something
>
> is exported, say, to html, org-mode produces a numerical outline as deep as
> the options are set
>
> 1. top
> 1.1. something
> 1.2. something
> 1.3. something
> 1.3.1. something
> 1.3.1.1. something
> 1.3.1.1.1. something
> 1.3.1.1.1.1. something
>
>
> Now, is there any way to actually capture that outline numeration for use
> in the original buffer? I'm thinking I would like to make a sort of tags or
> custom_id  system based on these numbers.

You might find something useful as a starting point in this old code I
posted here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2012-10/msg00245.html

Basically it exported to text to get the heading numbers.

Myles