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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