From: Josiah Schwab <jschwab@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Cc: Michael Bach <phaebz@gmail.com>,
Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: org-list-allow-alphabetical LaTeX export
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 10:39:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <93BA1627-D7F6-4E96-9AFC-927A6F6C8C6E@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D95C4050-F2DE-413A-933C-B042A8EA9E01@gmail.com>
> On 6 jun. 2013, at 10:20, Michael Bach <phaebz <at> 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 :)
Best,
Josiah
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-06 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-06 8:20 org-list-allow-alphabetical LaTeX export Michael Bach
2013-06-06 8:52 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-06-06 9:11 ` Michael Bach
2013-06-06 9:17 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-06-06 9:27 ` Michael Bach
2013-06-06 17:39 ` Josiah Schwab [this message]
2013-06-06 19:45 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-06-06 21:20 ` Rasmus
2013-06-06 21:36 ` Josiah Schwab
2013-06-06 22:39 ` Rasmus
2013-06-06 22:49 ` Rasmus
2013-06-07 11:12 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-06-07 5:01 ` Nick Dokos
2013-06-07 5:48 ` Josiah Schwab
2013-06-07 13:54 ` Nick Dokos
2013-06-06 9:23 ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-06-06 9:33 ` Michael Bach
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