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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
>>
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  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

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