From: Nathaniel Flath <flat0103@gmail.com>
To: Jacob Mitchell <jacob.d.mitchell@gmail.com>
Cc: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>,
emacs-orgmode@gnu.org,
Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] Alphabetical ordered lists
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 06:01:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikp8y1JftoTOEQ3J6TydNVfKQdTD1vHY3kTHR6V@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTindBSTCqZnh4Ps=ijwfcdLfXg0id+unrTwOawis@mail.gmail.com>
I was going to fix the issues described in the first reply - not
enough items in particular - and resubmit soon. I got a bit
distracted by finals. I'll see if I can figure out the export
problem, as well.
Thanks,
Nathaniel Flath
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:44 AM, Jacob Mitchell
<jacob.d.mitchell@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > On Jul 29, 2010, at 10:27 PM, Nathaniel Flath wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hello all,
>> >>
>> >> One thing that had been bugging me was the inability to have an
>> >> ordered list of the form:
>> >>
>> >> a. Item 1
>> >> b. Item 2
>> >> c. Item 3
>> >>
>> >> The following patch enables this, with lists going from a-z and A-Z.
>> >> Let me know if there are any issues with it.
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am not really sure we need these. They cause problems when lists get
>> > really long - also you patch does not further than "z", after that I
>> > get "{".
>> >
>> > Furthermore the export backends implement their own numbering
>> > rules anyway. So it seems to me that we do not need this addition.
>> >
>> > Any other votes here?
>>
>> I'm not currently missing this feature. I think it definitely would
>> have to handle more entries if this was to be included in org-mode.
>
> I agree, that would be nice.
>
>>
>> Maybe going something like
>>
>> a.
>> b.
>> ...
>> z.
>> aa.
>> ab.
>> ...
>> az.
>> ba.
>> bb.
>> ...
>> zz.
>> ... and if you really need more entries than that (unlikely) you can
>> do
>> aaa.
>> aab.
>> ...
>> and just keep going indefinitely.
>
> As a practical matter we should consider whether it's worth making a
> non-terminating sequence that can be handled by the exporters. LaTeX's
> enumerate package doesn't like going beyond (z):
>
> \documentclass[letterpaper]{article}
> \usepackage{enumerate}
>
> \begin{document}
> \begin{enumerate}[(z)]
> \item
> ...
> \end{document}
>
> The items beyond the 26th are mapped to "()".
>
> Of course there are going to be ways around these issues, but the question
> is whether it's desirable enough to implement and maintain that. Either way
> is fine with me--I'm new on the mailing list and haven't done any
> development for org-mode yet.
>
> -Jake
>>
>> -Bernt
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Emacs-orgmode mailing list
>> Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list.
>> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
>> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Emacs-orgmode mailing list
> Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list.
> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-27 13:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-29 20:27 [PATCH] Alphabetical ordered lists Nathaniel Flath
2010-07-29 21:07 ` Nick Dokos
2010-08-01 18:33 ` David Maus
2010-08-02 9:31 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-08-27 8:11 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-08-27 10:53 ` Bernt Hansen
2010-08-27 12:44 ` Jacob Mitchell
2010-08-27 13:01 ` Nathaniel Flath [this message]
2010-09-18 7:43 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-09-21 12:48 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-09-21 16:46 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-09-26 17:36 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-09-26 22:16 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-09-27 6:55 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-09-28 16:12 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-09-29 15:49 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-09-29 16:50 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-09-29 17:46 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-10-01 1:13 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-10-04 8:33 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-04 17:18 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-10-05 0:07 ` Sebastian Rose
2010-10-05 0:21 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-10-05 7:40 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-21 4:44 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-10-22 5:30 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-10-22 8:13 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-23 1:04 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-10-26 8:21 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-10-26 8:23 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-28 7:17 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-11-11 7:16 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-11-11 8:57 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-11-13 15:16 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-11-22 4:45 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-11-22 13:37 ` Bernt Hansen
2010-11-22 18:37 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2010-11-27 4:39 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-12-11 2:41 ` Nathaniel Flath
2010-12-20 18:25 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-01-12 20:05 ` Nathaniel Flath
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.orgmode.org/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=AANLkTikp8y1JftoTOEQ3J6TydNVfKQdTD1vHY3kTHR6V@mail.gmail.com \
--to=flat0103@gmail.com \
--cc=bernt@norang.ca \
--cc=carsten.dominik@gmail.com \
--cc=emacs-orgmode@gnu.org \
--cc=jacob.d.mitchell@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).