From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Beard Subject: Trouble with ordered list start number Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 22:37:06 +0900 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:42557) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QaT3L-0000kj-Qm for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 09:37:40 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QaT3K-0000Q6-Mm for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 09:37:39 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f41.google.com ([209.85.215.41]:36597) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QaT3K-0000Py-HY for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 09:37:38 -0400 Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so1290539ewy.0 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 06:37:37 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hello, I see in the manual http://orgmode.org/manual/Plain-lists.html that with ordered lists, you can for example start one with the number 20 by starting the "text of the item with [@20]" I assume this means I can just have a newline that looks like this [@20] some text for this item and hit M-Return after typing the text for the item, and have a `21. ' appear below it. But when I do, it gives me the top header (`*') instead. What am I doing wrong? Thanks Chris (Org-mode version 7.4)