From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Chapter headings
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:35:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ppl6dptx.fsf@alphaville.bos.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87siq284tb.fsf@stevenarntson.com
Steven Arntson <steven@stevenarntson.com> writes:
> Hello, I'm a beginning org-mode user.
>
> I'm writing a book with many chapters, each chapter as a top-level
> header (*). Is there a way to assign chapter numbers automatically, such
> that I might get a result along the lines of:
>
> * 1. This is a chapter containing thousands of words.
>
> * 2. This is the next chapter, with many words.
>
> * 3. And so on.
>
There are probably many ways to do that, but I want to invert the
question: *why* do you want chapter numbers in your org file?
I would argue that they are a bad idea in the vast majority of cases.
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-28 20:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-28 20:08 Chapter headings Steven Arntson
2014-03-28 20:35 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2014-03-28 20:49 ` Steven Arntson
2014-03-29 1:52 ` Alan Tyree
2014-03-29 2:18 ` Steven Arntson
2014-03-29 13:30 ` Scott Randby
2014-03-31 8:06 ` Sebastien Vauban
2014-03-28 20:41 ` Scott Randby
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