From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: [PATCH] Alphabetical ordered lists Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:11:07 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45320 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oou1t-0001ri-GY for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:11:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oou1o-0003Uo-KH for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:11:17 -0400 Received: from postduif.ic.uva.nl ([145.18.40.180]:42160) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oou1o-0003UR-Ag for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:11:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Nathaniel Flath Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 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? - Carsten