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From: William Beard <wcbeard10@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Trouble with ordered list start number
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:45:50 +0900
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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.
>
> =A01. [@20] some text for this item
>
> then M-RET turns it into this
>
> =A020. [@20] some text for this item
> =A021. <point here>
>
> --
> Bernt
>