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From: William Beard <wcbeard10@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Cc: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
Subject: Re: Trouble with ordered list start number
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:45:50 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTin1aej8T9=UGB7ZBfvms+w5RSZDGQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878vsqrnm1.fsf@norang.ca>

Excellent, thank you.
Chris

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:
> William Beard <wcbeard10@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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?
>
> It needs to be a list.
>
>  1. [@20] some text for this item
>
> then M-RET turns it into this
>
>  20. [@20] some text for this item
>  21. <point here>
>
> --
> Bernt
>

      reply	other threads:[~2011-06-26  5:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-25 13:37 Trouble with ordered list start number William Beard
2011-06-25 14:29 ` Bernt Hansen
2011-06-26  5:45   ` William Beard [this message]

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